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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I love TV. I love the stability of it.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.

I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

My DVR says that I watch a lot of TV my husband likes.

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Five years on TV is a really, really long time.

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.

I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.