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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. -- Caitlin Moran
I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it. -- Naya Rivera
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it. -- Darren Boyd
William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were." "Telly?" Who was that? He grunted in amusement. "Television, of course. Don't you speak English?" "You sure don't," I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me. -- Jeaniene Frost
I choose YouTube over telly. -- Cory Doctorow
I don't normally watch myself on the telly. -- Frank Bruno
A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly. -- Kate Moss
On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints. -- Vic Reeves
The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory. -- Kevin Whately
Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. -- Matthew Macfadyen
I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it. -- Gordon Ramsay
I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure. -- Dawn French
If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally. -- Kelvin Fletcher
And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way. -- Eddie Izzard
I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly. -- Jo Brand
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. -- Nick Rhodes
I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting. -- Sophie McShera
I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy. -- Allen Carr
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do. -- Jennifer Saunders
Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. -- Sophie Aldred
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. -- Sophie Aldred
Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep -- Jeaniene Frost
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered. -- Pete Postlethwaite
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all. -- Russell T Davies
A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK! -- Roald Dahl
You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series. -- Kevin Whately
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. -- Ian Hislop
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. -- Ian Hislop
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art. -- Sia Furler
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face -- John Walter Bratton
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium. -- Idris Elba
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly. -- Matthew Macfadyen
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net. -- Jenson Button
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive! -- John Prescott
I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when Peep Show or the sketch show is on the telly or when were doing loads of interviews. -- Robert Webb
So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin". -- Tommy Cooper
Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more. -- Syd Barrett
You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship. -- Jarvis Cocker
I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country. -- Christopher Eccleston
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru. -- David Tennant
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal. -- Paul McGann
I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things. -- Jonathan Meades
Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do. -- Graham Norton
I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike. -- Robert Webb
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it. -- Nick Clegg
The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around. -- Sarah Parish
I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. -- Karl Pilkington
Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies. -- Sally Phillips

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