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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
I completely understand why labels would be a little bit hesitant to sign somebody coming off of a television show, in their first glance.
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.
I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.
If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.
What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.
Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].
There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.
The thing about being on a reality show is you'll never get respect. You're living your life on television. You're not doing anything special.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.
I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'
Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.
I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.
I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.