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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. -- Samantha Bee
Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. -- Lisa Nicole Carson
I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums. -- Eric Andre
I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.' -- James Snyder
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. -- John Hodgman
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. -- Candice Patton
My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid. -- Pauley Perrette
I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. -- Laurie Holden
I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. -- Laurie Holden
We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days. -- Jennifer Morrison
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. -- Tom Stoppard
I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film. -- Morgan Freeman
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. -- David Duchovny
You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales. -- Richard C. Armitage
And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs. -- Erika Slezak
Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right. -- Rue McClanahan
I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers. -- Issa Rae
I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that. -- Will Smith
I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done. -- Carole Ann Ford
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. -- Zadie Smith
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation. -- John Walford
I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much. -- George R. R. Martin
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels. -- Eileen Myles
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't. -- Louis C. K.
Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. -- Dominic Monaghan
I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre. -- Jeremy Bulloch
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. -- David Strathairn
I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. -- Tyra Banks
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. -- Charles Keating, Jr.
Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life. -- Jonathan Banks
I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all! -- Chanel Iman
I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too. -- Lea Salonga
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years. -- Jan Hammer
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television. -- Billy Campbell
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. -- Christopher Eccleston
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on. -- Penelope Keith
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross. -- Natalie Zea
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
Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television. -- Tim Daly
I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed. -- Matthew Lewis
The future of American film lies on television. -- David Hare
I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. -- Stephen Moyer
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. -- David Strathairn
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. -- Charles Keating, Jr.
I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut. -- Robert Knepper
Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me. -- Yvonne Strahovski
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. -- Tom Stoppard
I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. -- Nico Tortorella
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. -- Steven Bochco
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach. -- Benjamin Bratt
I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be. -- Maggie Q
In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. -- Gerard Depardieu
The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television. -- Patti LuPone
There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television. -- Kyle Cassie
I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. -- David Duchovny
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time. -- Denis Leary
I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home. -- Jake Busey
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really. -- Missi Pyle
The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship. -- Bear McCreary
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. -- Alan Ball
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. -- Orlando Bloom
Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television -- Amy Poehler
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films. -- Richard LaGravenese
Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny. -- John Michael Higgins
Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such. -- James Spader
I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny. -- Sufe Bradshaw
I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television. -- Kristen Johnston
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. -- Milton Mayer
I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started. -- Jason Gann
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. -- Tom Conti
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. -- Julianna Margulies
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. -- Steven Bochco
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games. -- Kevin Spacey
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway. -- Adrianne Palicki
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work. -- Isabelle Huppert
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. -- David Ginola
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down. -- Kevin Richardson
There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre. -- Kim Fields
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television. -- Dylan McDermott
I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film. -- Jaclyn Smith
I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it. -- MC Hammer
I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor. -- David Duchovny
What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life. -- Nolan North
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater. -- Richard C. Armitage
Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. -- John Grooters
Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it. -- Patrick J. Adams
Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around. -- George Lucas
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. -- Lavrenti Lopes
In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read. -- Laura Vandervoort
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true. -- Charlie Hunnam
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. -- Andrzej Wajda
Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life. -- Alicia Keys
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that. -- Jillian Bach
[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
I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother. -- Julie White
I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film. -- Pamela Anderson
The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode. -- Jon Hamm
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. -- Gillian Armstrong
Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew -- Liz W. Garcia
I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books ... -- Adi Shankar
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'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it. -- David Morse
I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it. -- Joy Bryant
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
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film. -- David S. Goyer
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that. -- Helen Mirren
I think right now television is the best that itâ??s ever been, and I think that itâ??s the worst that film has ever been. -- Dustin Hoffman
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. -- Marc Guggenheim
What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life. -- Matthew Fox
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project. -- Alex Borstein
I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing. -- Kenny Wormald
One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity. -- Glenn Howerton

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