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Quotes About TV

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.
~ Freddie Gibbs
No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV.
~ Tanya Saracho
I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
~ Peter Weller
I love talking about 'Stella.'
~ Ruth Jones
I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
~ Rebecca Loos
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
~ Laura Benanti
Much of what is reported on TV and other media outlets is actually pseudo or junk science, which is not real science, but is passed off as such.
~ Thomas E. Kida
when two female rock stars exchange a lascivious kiss on national TV, Kansas goes haywire. Kansas screams for the heads of the liberal elite. Kansas comes running to the polling place. And Kansas cuts those rock stars' taxes.
~ Thomas Frank
drain economics out of the world, and you're left with few tools for explaining anything. Why is our culture the way it is? Why does TV get coarser with each passing year? What makes certain styles or words or ideas suddenly so visible while others disappear?
~ Thomas Frank
The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil.
~ Thomas Frank
Were there opinion polls in hell? Probably! And probably one hundred percent of the damned were of the opinion that they should be in heaven, and the results of the polls were published every morning in hell's own newspaper and broadcast on TV, and there were protest rallies organized by demons, and long processions of the damned wailing and singing "We Shall Overcome.
~ Thomas M. Disch
Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
~ Thomas Sowell
Coleman walked to the far bed and clicked on the TV. "It's Nancy Grace." "America's screech owl.
~ Tim Dorsey
Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
~ Tim Dorsey
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'
~ Patti Smith
Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.
~ Alan Taylor
In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.
~ Cary Fukunaga
I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
~ Andie MacDowell
I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.
~ Javed Jaffrey
My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
~ Tahj Mowry
In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.
~ Rachel Riley
TV jobs that I've had in the past, one of the side effects that is so wonderful is that it gives you a sense of normalcy because you're going to the same place every day, and you sleep in your own bed at night.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
~ Sara Paxton
And I mean, I watched all of 'Friends' in college. I liked it growing up, and it's a very nostalgic show for me.
~ Patti Harrison