That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.
You wanna know how you know you're informed as a protestor? They don't show your interview on TV.
I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
Philo Farnsworth invented TV at the age of 22.
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.
I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.
Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.
I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.
I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.
Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.
What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!
The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.
I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.
I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.
I like TV. It all depends what it is.
These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.
Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions.
I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.
Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.
I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.
Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.
It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.
When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.
I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.
I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.
I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
The sun don't shine in your TV!
There’s something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.
That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.
I don't watch reality TV.
You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.
I grew up on radio, not TV.
Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.
A small handgun makes any TV remote control.
I think you can use some of those words on TV. But one thing you can't do is throw coffee, I've said it over and over again!
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!
On cable TV, they have a weather channel
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.
I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?
If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show
Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.
He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.
Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].
Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.
I love vegging out in front of the TV, eating pizza!
It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.
I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.
I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.
TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.
I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.
I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.
I think surprises make TV entertaining.
I remember when I was a kid that the only way to see Hulk Hogan wrestle was you'd have to go to the live shows. He was never on TV. So I thought "Why not do the same thing?"
It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.
Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.