"I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end."
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"I think musicians should stay off television generally."
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"We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers."
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"For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it."
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"A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad."
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"Television leaves no external scars."
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"I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program."
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"No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off."
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"I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options."
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"Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!""
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"When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was."
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"Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way."
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"For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows."
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"Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television."
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"To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'"
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"I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays."
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"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
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"Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors."
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"You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started."
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