Tv Film Quotes

#1. I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

Kevin Chamberlin

#2. When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

Cicely Tyson

#3. I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

Spike Lee

#4. Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

Sam Branson

#5. I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

Laura Osnes

#6. In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

Simon Cowell

#7. There's something about that relationship between actor and audience. Whether you get it on Broadway or in a fine local playhouse, there's no greater drug. Every time I get to do TV, film and a play in the same year, it's my dream come true.

Roger Bart

#8. The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.

Julie Halston

#9. Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

Ricky Gervais

#10. I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

Keeley Hawes

#11. I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Mads Mikkelsen

#12. The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Emilia Clarke

#13. I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now ... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.

DJ Qualls

#14. The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

Marshall McLuhan

#15. I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.

Julianne Hough

#16. When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

Maggie Q

#17. There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

Kieran Bew

#18. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is ... part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.

Marc Guggenheim

#20. Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

Peter Capaldi

#21. When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Kelli O'Hara

#22. I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

Beau Willimon

#23. Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

Dirk Benedict

#24. I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

Shane Smith

#25. It's a better time for actresses on TV than on film.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#26. I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

Yasmin Paige

#27. I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

Aidan Gillen

#28. TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.

Gabriel Iglesias

#29. LUCY and Desi. Lucy and Ricky. As far as the public knew, the private life of the Arnazes closely resembled that of the Ricardos on the TV screen; a camera crew just dropped by once a week to film a half hour of slapstick and tender kisses.

Warren G. Harris

#30. I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.

Dennis Franz

#31. One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Rainn Wilson

#32. I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

Laura Donnelly

#33. We, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women's appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games.

Mindy Kaling

#34. I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

Sherry Stringfield

#35. I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#36. I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy.

Aeriel Miranda

#37. TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.

Nic Pizzolatto

#38. TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

Gabriel Iglesias

#39. You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Idris Elba

#40. Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

Ja Rule

#41. I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

Neil Gaiman

#42. I'm in a 'I can do whatever' phase. I'm taking this '106 & Park' opportunity into full force. I'm really focused on doing my best with it. This is my 'Fresh Prince' moment. I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest of film, TV, and more.

Bow Wow

#43. Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

Tommy Wiseau

#44. Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.

Terry Teachout

#45. I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

David Walliams

#46. I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

Chuck Connors

#47. For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Jenji Kohan

#48. Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

Michael Eklund

#49. I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

Jodelle Ferland

#50. TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Eric Stoltz

#51. For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

Aeriel Miranda

#52. I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

#53. The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

Tina Fey

#54. It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

Annette Bening

#55. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

Laura Linney

#56. Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

Sylvester McCoy

#57. What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.

Shari Wiedmann

#58. I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.

Yvonne Strahovski

#59. The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

Michelle Williams

#60. How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

John Hurt

#61. I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

#62. In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

Garry Marshall

#63. After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

Justin Chadwick

#64. The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

Sara Ramirez

#65. The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera ... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.

Kevin Spacey

#66. I understand that in TV, people like likable people. In film, you can get away with playing a terrible person. In TV, you're in people's homes every week.

Matt McGorry

#67. The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

Denis Leary

#68. I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

Rick Gonzalez

#69. You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

Anthony Michael Hall

#70. What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

Cush Jumbo

#71. I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

Shuler Hensley

#72. I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

#73. TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

Ram Kapoor

#74. I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

David Lynch

#75. The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

Jon Hamm

#76. We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

Mary-Kate Olsen

#77. Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

Mark Roberts

#78. As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre ... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Max Irons

#79. I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

Jesse Williams

#80. Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.

Chad Lindberg

#81. In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

Cory Michael Smith

#82. I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

Noah Hawley

#83. Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

Ewen Bremner

#84. Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Colin O'Donoghue

#85. I did work a lot in Scots theatre, but I was never really successful in Scottish film or TV until I went down to London - and I had to go to the U.S. to get my big break.

Henry Ian Cusick

#86. I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

Sandra Bernhard

#87. The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

M. Night Shyamalan

#88. You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

Karl Malone

#89. I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

T. J. Thyne

#90. My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

Dominic Sherwood

#91. You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.

Amber Stevens

#92. I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

David Schwimmer

#93. After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Andrew Lau

#94. For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Jason Fuchs

#95. I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.

Jill Soloway

#96. You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.

Matthew Lewis

#97. The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Ben Wheatley

#98. I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

Cate Blanchett

#99. 15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

Anthony Michael Hall

#100. Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

Robert Lopez