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"Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of."
"I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered."
"I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?"
"Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial."
"TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it."
"People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up."
"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
"I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me."
"The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you."
"I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions."
"With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control."
"It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character."
"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."
"No TV and no beer makes Homer something something."
"Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins."
"With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater."
"I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where."
"I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?"
"I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work."
"I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV."
