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I just always had a love for television and movies. -- Bruce Boxleitner
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. -- Brad Bird
I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies. -- Bow Wow
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. -- J Allard
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that. -- Judy Greer
There are so many (negative) things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing. -- Kevin Sorbo
I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it. -- MC Hammer
Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers. -- Shane Dawson
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 always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. -- Jennifer Garner
In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch. -- Sarah Silverman
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working. -- James Patterson
I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck. -- Max Lucado
I learn an amazing amount from watching television and movies because if you watch things that really work and don't work, it teaches you so much about what you do for your own craft. I think that if you're auditioning for a show, you need to know the world of the show, or you can't represent it very well. -- Lauren Stamile
I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. -- Ansel Elgort
We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers. -- Chelsea Clinton
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows. -- Michael Lynton
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me. -- BD Wong
I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid. -- Matt Lanter
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time. -- Felix Dennis
I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one. -- Tommy Davidson
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life. -- Ja Rule
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. -- Ken Thompson
More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television. -- Mindy Cohn
There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies. -- George Lucas
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. -- Ted Turner
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts. -- Larry Cohen
I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw. -- Joss Whedon
I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television. -- Cameron Monaghan
Movies are movies, television is television. -- Dirk Benedict
Television. That's where movies go when they die. -- Bob Hope
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. -- Michael Cunningham
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone. -- Martin Freeman
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds." -- Michael Cunningham
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. -- Steven Spielberg
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. -- Eartha Kitt
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. -- Matt Drudge
In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out. -- Jean Smart
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies. -- Lauren Shuler Donner
People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good. -- Terrence Mann
Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively. -- George Carlin
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies. -- M.J. Rose
I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television. -- Charles Grodin
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies. -- E. L. James
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment. -- Alan Moore
What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it. -- Jim Gaffigan
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. -- Richard King
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling. -- William Boyd
I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television. -- Raymond Cruz
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space. -- Rick Alverson
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. -- Zooey Deschanel
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. -- Stephen Hunter
I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies. -- Brion James
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies. -- Robert Wagner
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it. -- James Spader
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. -- Lee Child
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. -- Irrfan Khan
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? -- Bud Abbott
The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. -- Allison Williams
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television. -- Vince Gilligan
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. -- Ezra Taft Benson
But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason. -- Evan Jones
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. -- Orson Welles
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week. -- Alfred Gough
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. -- Pat Boone
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television. -- William H. Macy
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium. -- Kenneth Lonergan
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies. -- Jacki Weaver
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. -- Harvey Fierstein
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines. -- Dev Patel
I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it. -- Jamie Clayton
I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it. -- Janice Dickinson
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life. -- Tony Goldwyn
I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it. -- Stan Lee
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life. -- Craig Venter
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television. -- Stan Lee
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. -- Edgar Bergen
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around. -- Rebecca Eaton
I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies. -- Michael Douglas
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. -- Julie Bowen
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
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen. -- Alan Moore
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me. -- Eva Longoria
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies. -- Joseph Barbera
The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch. -- Marion Woodman
All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is. -- Ava DuVernay
Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor. -- Kathryn Hahn
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method. -- Jerrold Nadler
I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies. -- Rob Lowe
Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies. -- G. W. Bailey
I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies. -- Bille August
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. -- Janet Evanovich
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets. -- Stephen L. Carter
I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies. -- David Morse
I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met. -- Steven Spielberg
I don't have time, I watch movies, or shows people are talking about. Television is the medium I use the least; I'd rather use my computer, iPhone or iPad. -- Franca Sozzani
I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good. -- Alexandra Breckenridge
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture. -- Jesse Eisenberg
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction. -- Steven Bochco
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. -- Sean Penn

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