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I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever. -- Adam Scott
I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters. -- Joanna Garcia
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling. -- Justin Kirk
There's a lot a great television nowadays. -- Mark Wahlberg
Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV. -- Rush Limbaugh
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence. -- Errol Morris
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since. -- Robert Englund
I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script. -- Al Pacino
A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television. -- Craig Ferguson
A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me. -- Jack Falahee
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.' -- Kevin Bleyer
I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with each other. You have to leave it to the writers to know what makes great television. -- Candice Patton
Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talking about television. Sharing with friends the thrill of the last episode, debating what will happen next, working to enlist friends to watch the same shows that you love. -- Michael K. Powell
I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock n roll here. Britains a funny place and theres a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. -- Brendan Coyle
I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. -- Brendan Coyle
There are great characters on television. -- Penelope Ann Miller
I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television. -- Henry Ian Cusick
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. -- Christine Lahti
I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great! -- Camren Bicondova
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone. -- Martin Freeman
I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often. -- Alex Pareene
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television. -- Steven Moffat
I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television. -- Michelle MacLaren
I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. -- Tyler Perry
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? -- Elayne Boosler
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. -- Bruce Forsyth
The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling. -- Eric Close
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. -- Chris Wallace
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. -- John Hodgman
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them! -- Rob James-Collier
I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either. -- Lucy Griffiths
I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows. -- Scott Bakula
TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television. -- Rob Reiner
Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them. -- Ken Dodd
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. -- Gore Vidal
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. -- Lionel Shriver
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I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. -- Chris Pratt
I've been on television saying, "Â¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me. -- Sandra Cisneros
I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows. -- Rob Reiner
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. -- Scott Speedman
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. -- Simon Barnes
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do. -- Charlie Rose
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. -- Todd Phillips
The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. -- Allison Williams
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. -- Tallulah Bankhead
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star. -- Jason Alexander
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
Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character. -- J. Robbins
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television. -- Harrison Ford
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. -- Jeff Daniels
Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on. -- Max Martini
I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show. -- Shawn Ryan
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people. -- Vince Gilligan
The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time. -- Jeremy Irons
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece. -- Laurie Holden
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 never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television. -- Kelly Wearstler
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. -- Helen McCrory
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. -- Oliver North
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects. -- David Gerrold
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. -- Helen McCrory
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open. -- Charlie Barnett
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks. -- Jonathan Meades
I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building. -- Chris Albrecht
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television. -- Harry Shearer
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV. -- Tina Fey
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. -- Mike Newell
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television. -- Roma Downey
I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced. -- Vinessa Shaw
I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth. -- Patrick J. Adams
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set. -- Bill Walton
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. -- Justin Chadwick
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors. -- Kajol
The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities. -- David Fincher

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