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Television Quotes

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It’s about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I’m thrilled with what I’ve seen so far Picture Quote #1

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed Picture Quote #1

Movie studios aren’t making too many dramas anymore; they’re in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now Picture Quote #1

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it’s very slow and there’s a lot of standing around Picture Quote #1

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don’t know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict Picture Quote #1

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person’s life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience’s attention Picture Quote #1

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I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula Picture Quote #1

I’ve been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that Picture Quote #1

You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You’re the same person. Just go Picture Quote #1

I’d always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it Picture Quote #1

First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother Picture Quote #1

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it’s scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can’t drop the ball Picture Quote #1

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In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains Picture Quote #1

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor Picture Quote #1

I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, ‘Damn, that TV has 500 channels.’ When I got older, it didn’t have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees Picture Quote #1

I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel Picture Quote #1

I loved Duran Duran’s Girls on Film - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you’re a kid watching that stuff on television you’re like, Well, we are opening up as a society! Picture Quote #1

I call the 70s the golden age of television; in the early 70s there were sensationally good shows Picture Quote #1

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I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that’s just the pretty girl, I’ve done that before, so I don’t have any interest in that Picture Quote #1

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I’ve said it, haven’t I? I’m strictly a shower singer at the minute Picture Quote #1

I think that I recall the nostalgic 50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed Picture Quote #1

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia Picture Quote #1

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn’t understand what the word ‘assassinated’ meant Picture Quote #1

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends Picture Quote #1

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I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like ‘Rolling Stone,’ to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the ‘New York Times’ and public television Picture Quote #1

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years Picture Quote #1

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead Picture Quote #1

It’s easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I’m sure it’s like that for acting and television Picture Quote #1

Getting a second thing isn’t always easy in this busy, competitive television market Picture Quote #1

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners Picture Quote #1

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I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It’s about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I’m thrilled with what I’ve seen so far. (Television Quotes) Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. (Television Quotes) Movie studios aren’t making too many dramas anymore; they’re in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. (Television Quotes) If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it’s very slow and there’s a lot of standing around. (Television Quotes) If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don’t know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict. (Television Quotes) I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person’s life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience’s attention. (Television Quotes) I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. (Television Quotes) I’ve been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that. (Television Quotes) You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You’re the same person. Just go. (Television Quotes) I’d always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it. (Television Quotes) First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother. (Television Quotes) I used to be a rabid reader, but now it’s scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can’t drop the ball. (Television Quotes) In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains. (Television Quotes) I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor. (Television Quotes) I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, ‘Damn, that TV has 500 channels.’ When I got older, it didn’t have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees. (Television Quotes) I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel. (Television Quotes) I loved Duran Duran’s Girls on Film - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you’re a kid watching that stuff on television you’re like, Well, we are opening up as a society! (Television Quotes) I call the 70s the golden age of television; in the early 70s there were sensationally good shows. (Television Quotes) I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that’s just the pretty girl, I’ve done that before, so I don’t have any interest in that. (Television Quotes) In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I’ve said it, haven’t I? I’m strictly a shower singer at the minute. (Television Quotes) I think that I recall the nostalgic 50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. (Television Quotes) Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. (Television Quotes) I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn’t understand what the word ‘assassinated’ meant. (Television Quotes) My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends. (Television Quotes) I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like ‘Rolling Stone,’ to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the ‘New York Times’ and public television. (Television Quotes) In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years. (Television Quotes) Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. (Television Quotes) It’s easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I’m sure it’s like that for acting and television. (Television Quotes) Getting a second thing isn’t always easy in this busy, competitive television market (Television Quotes) If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. (Television Quotes)

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