You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.
In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands conflagrations and ritual deaths...
That's just the kind of anxiety reality TV hopes to inspire in female viewers. After all, as advertisers have long understood, it's far easier to shill cosmetics and clothing - not to mention Match.com and and Bally Fitness memberships - to insecure ...
There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmare after acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people be...
I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is...
Peter Bradley: [interviewing Eli Cash on television] Now, your previous novel... Eli: Yes, Wildcat. Peter Bradley: Not a success. Why? Eli: Well... Wildcat was written in a kind of obsolete vernacular... [long pause as he starts to become spaced out]...
Tommy Williams: So I'm backing out the door, right, and I got the TV, like this; it was a big old thing, I couldn't see shit; suddenly I hear this voice, "Police, kid, hands in the air." You know, I was standing there, holdin' on to that TV, so final...
Once in a while, you'll get somebody who watched 'One Tree Hill' and 'Supernatural,' but by and large, whoever watches one show is very distinct. There's not a lot of crossover. It's like, 'This is my show, and I love this show. I know everything abo...
Howard Hughes: [repeating over and over again] Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints...
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.
