2285 Television Quotes for You to Enjoy

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. Russell Baker

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Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that. Russell T Davies

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Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. Ruth Rendell

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You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. Ruth Rendell

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I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure. Rutina Wesley

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In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere. Ruud Gullit

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What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. Ryan Gosling

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I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television. Ryan Seacrest

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I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes. Ryan Seacrest

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I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood. Ryan Seacrest

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. S. I. Hayakawa

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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them. Said Sayrafiezadeh

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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. Sally Ride

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It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or the use of a search engine. 'La La Land' was guilty of this several times, as well as a more generalised aesthetic nostalgia. Sally Rooney

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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Salvador Dali

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I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it. Sam Donaldson

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. Samantha Bee

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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V. Samantha Bond

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