I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.
Criss Angel
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Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
Method Man
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave Barry
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Theater is about life, not about television or movies.
Jason Robards
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For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
Pete Hamill
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
Barry Diller
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Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.
Holly Hunter
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I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
Jerry Lewis
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I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ranks rung by rung. Anyway, it was several years later, when I was working nationally in Hollywood as the announcer and second banana on ABC-TV's late-night entry, 'The Joey Bishop Show,' that I had my big moment.
Regis Philbin
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
Mamie Gummer
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive James
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Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
Lydia Leonard
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Charley Pride
YouTelevisionOldSameSaw
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
John Slattery
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I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.
Danielle Fishel
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The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it out week to week in television, it's impossible.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.
Pauley Perrette
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
B. D. Wong
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Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.
Howard Jacobson
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Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.
Jerrod Carmichael
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My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.
Raymond Burr
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CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.
Roger Ailes
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I feel like it's extremely rare to find a female who's bisexual and not either lesbian or straight on television shows.
Madelaine Petsch
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