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I never really planned on doing a television series. -- Judah Friedlander
Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series. -- Neve Campbell
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. -- J. J. Abrams
I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time. -- David Tennant
I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow. -- Michael Dorn
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that. -- Chris Lilley
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.' -- LeRoy Neiman
Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen. -- Charlie Day
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.' -- Walter Mosley
What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though. -- Nathan Fillion
A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible. -- Kim Cattrall
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. -- Patrick Stewart
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while. -- Robert Klein
I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria. -- Jorge Garcia
I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out. -- Bill Cosby
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. -- Bob Balaban
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. -- Karl Urban
Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots. -- Alan Moore
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. -- Michael J. Fox
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film. -- Gillian Anderson
Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing. -- Michael Hogan
Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. -- Mindy Kaling
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life. -- Kate Jackson
Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level. -- Victor Garber
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. -- Julian Fellowes
I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy. -- Jeanne Tripplehorn
not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals. -- Erma Bombeck
I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House. -- Mark Goddard
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series. -- Bill Mumy
I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.' -- Jennifer Ehle
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. -- Bob Newhart
I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are. -- Bryan Cranston
I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character. -- Annie Potts
The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't. -- Greg Bryk
I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well. -- Aaron Sorkin
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. -- Salman Rushdie
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy. -- Edward Burns
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft. -- Steve Kanaly
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. -- David Duchovny
When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time. -- Jill Lepore
I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth. -- Atom Egoyan
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes. -- Robert Rodriguez
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. -- Todd Haynes
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film. -- Lennie James
The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet. -- Aaron Sorkin
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series. -- Steve Rushin
Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life. -- Sherry Stringfield
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor. -- Laurence Fishburne
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. -- Bill Mumy
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy. -- Kathryn Bigelow
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television. -- Denis Leary
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series. -- Harrison Ford
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI. -- LeRoy Neiman
I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.' -- Karla Souza
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall. -- Walter Mosley
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint. -- Jane Seymour
I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series. -- Aldis Hodge
I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person. -- James L. Brooks
We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary. -- Paul Michael Glaser
We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones. -- Charles Dance
I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit. -- Keith Emerson
I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel. -- John Fusco
The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work. -- Alan Moore
We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame. -- Dean Devlin
In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know. -- Don Rickles

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