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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.
I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.
In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
It doesn't matter whether it's television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I'm doing. If I don't believe in it, I won't do it.
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.
Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.
Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.
If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.
In a TV show, you are restricted to a lot of things. On television, you can't put the content you can put on web series and on the channels digitally.
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels.
Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .
I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Even on television, it is all about the script of the show and my character. It has nothing to do with whether I am bagging the lead role or any other.
We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.