That’s the great thing about
That’s the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that – you know, I live a pretty simple life, I’m not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it’s a good deal.
– Justin Kirk
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- I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who’d done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan
- This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. – Steven Spielberg
- The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that’s why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you’re looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. – Zeljko Ivanek
- Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. – Anonymous
- “Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space…All that negative stuff. All the pain…It just floted away from me, I just
- This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing. – Maya Angelou
- I don’t watch a great deal of television because I don’t have a television, and I don’t have a huge catalog of films that I’ve watched, either. – Lucy Griffiths
- Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. – Les Brown
- Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72! –
- One thing about golf is you don’t know why you play bad and why you play good. – George Archer