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I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I've worked on 30-something different TV shows, and most of the people can't stand each other.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.

I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

I don't like everybody who I see on TV.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.