Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Charles Dickens

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charles Dickens

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Charles Dickens

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Charles Soule

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Charles Stross

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Charles Stross

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Charles Stross

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

David Wain

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Diablo Cody

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Louis C. K.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Caroline Corr

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

Bryan Greenberg

I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.

Bobby Flay

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

Bob Iger

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

Cat Deeley

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

Bruno Heller

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

Casey Abrams

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

Dick Cavett

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Ed Westwick

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

Elizabeth Berkley

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

Barbra Streisand

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Bill Gates

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.