Television is for appearing on, not looking at. — Noel Coward
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house. — Groucho Marx
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. — Peggy Noonan
We want to seam in reality as we are on TV. — James Murray
TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'. — Jimmy Carr
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. — Sir David Paradine Frost
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. — Marshall McLuhan
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. — Fred Allen
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him. — Philo Farnsworth
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do. — Sayings
Twitter is television for intellectuals. — Naval Ravikant
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. — Fred W. Friendly
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat. — Tallulah Bankhead
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute
Short Live Television Quotes
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. — Darryl F. Zanuck
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. — Leonard Maltin
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. — Ann Landers
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. — Shimon Peres
Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV. — Akira Toriyama
Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. — Shel Israel
Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process. — Brian Roberts
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles. — Harry Morgan
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Live Television Quotes
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. — Andy Warhol
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. — Joan Rivers
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far. — Studs Terkel
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. — Aldo Leopold
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. — Marshall McLuhan
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
In this day and age, especially with all the media and television, social media, and the Internet, we are constantly being compared and comparing ourselves to others' lives and journeys. Keep your eyes on your own road. — Sanaa Lathan
I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know. — Mila Kunis
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling. — George W. Bush
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs. — Carl Sagan
Live Show Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you — Lemmy Kilmister
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. — Mother Teresa
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. — Nate Saint
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life. — Laverne Cox
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. — Melanie Klein
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit. — Kid Cudi
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. — Leymah Gbowee
The truth is every human being decides how they are going to live their life because we all decide what meaning we give to each and every moment in our lives. We do not decide what shows up. But we do decide how we show up. — Tom Bilyeu
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee. — Bruce Vilanch
Live Tv Quotes
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead. — Jim Morrison
We did sketch comedy, performed live improv, and then we made the transition to TV with 'Impractical Jokers.' — Joe Gatto
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. — Akira Toriyama
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me. — Eric Stoltz
The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night. — James Murray
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star. — Meg Wolitzer
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.' — John Fire Lame Deer
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. — John C. McGinley
For some reason, talking is easy for me. Practice does make perfect; I've been doing it for a while. Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out. It's very organic. — CM Punk
I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. — Janis Joplin
Live Theatre Quotes
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. — Stephen Sondheim
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it. — Noel Coward
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made. — Barbara Stanwyck
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe. — Robert Montgomery
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form. — Harold Prince
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. — Ewan McGregor
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time. — Penelope Keith
I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film. — Susan Stroman
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. — Gwyneth Paltrow
You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart. — Susan Stroman
The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man. — Walter Brueggemann
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Live the way you want to be remembered.
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me. — Joel S. Goldsmith
When you use your body for a living, you have one job, and it requires one thing: work hard to stay in peak condition. That’s it. — Tim Grover
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. — Leo Tolstoy
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time. — John Lasseter
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden — D.T. Suzuki
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. — John Eldredge
Live Theater Quotes
I live in New Jersey, so I kind of just go to New York whenever. — Sadie Sink
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. — Melissa Bean
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular. — Viola Davis
I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy. — Kristin Chenoweth
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances. — Ettore Sottsass
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill
Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience. — Doug Stanhope
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby. — Edna Ferber
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life — Irwin Shaw
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway. — Sayings
Television News Quotes
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders. — Ella Baker
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. — Sayings
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen. — Keith Olbermann
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. — John Updike
Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health. — Rodney A. Smolla
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment. — Vince McMahon
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK. — Lynne Reid Banks
You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public. — Lowell Bergman
Performing Live Quotes
Well, our first live show, for us it was the Gramercy. — Joe Gatto
In my live show, it will feel like I'm making up everything as I go, and a lot of it I do. I riff with the audience and see what happens. — James Murray
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. — Kanye West
Music is still the one thing that ties people together.
People can come together from all different religions,
walks of life, colours, creeds and enjoy the same song.
That's still the most incredible thing to me about performing live. — Dave Gahan
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience. — Murray Louis
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do — Toni Braxton
Relax, you’ll live longer and perform better. — Naval Ravikant
I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances. — DJ Jazzy Jeff
Live Music Quotes
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. — Merle Haggard
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
As long as we live there is never enough singing. — Martin Luther
love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley
Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean! — Bob Marley
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. — Albert Einstein
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. — Stevie Wonder
Live Concerts Quotes
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music. — Joseph Jarman
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. — Theodor Reik
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. — Daniel Libeskind
I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell. — Brian Wilson
If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman. — Debbie Reynolds
To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey. — Joaquin Rodrigo
You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert. — Dick Dale
I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter. — Martin Short
Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise. — Bob Burg
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television. — Aldo Leopold
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. — Henry B. Eyring
This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now. — Shonda Rhimes
I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all. — Ron White
There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times. — John Cleese
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants. — Florence Henderson
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations. — Florence Henderson
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. — Paddy Chayefsky
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. — Shelley Winters
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. — Victor Kiam
I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks. — Ron White
It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?" — Atticus Shaffer
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. — Tom Ford
The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched. — David Attenborough
When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess. — Suzanne Somers
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. — Marlon Brando
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
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back. — Michael Crichton
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. — Eartha Kitt
Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong. — L. Tom Perry
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. — Richard Yates
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives. — Oprah Winfrey
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God. — Charles R. Swindoll
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. — Gloria Steinem
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' — Robert Winston
If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care. — Giuliana Rancic
This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era. — Sandra Cisneros
Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this. — Bill Maher
You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years. — Criss Angel
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