#levis

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. ↗

— Chuck D.

#enough #everywhere #face #front #getting

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

#away #film #hard #i #imperative

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cable-television #cable-television-in-the-us #conservatism #conservatism-in-the-us #gore-vidal

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#makes #media #press #stars #television

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#days #even #evening #father #many

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from. ↗

— John Cleese

#also #barker #comic #death #encouraging

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. ↗

— George Clooney

#dad #dating #grew #i #schmuck

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim. ↗

— Dawn French

#amazing #any #anything #bit #chocolate

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#best #makes #much #television #worst

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage. ↗

— David Frost

#advantage #another #battle #century #conversation