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Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

oh how television diminishes everything.

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.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

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.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.