Michael K. Powell Quotes

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.

I've grown to love L.A. It was a really touchy transition. It was not the easiest. It took me some years to love it.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

There's always a transition if you go to a new territory or a new company or a new country or wherever because there's different styles and different crowds that you perform in front of. Of course, it always takes a little bit of time to find your groove.

If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.

Television is a big platform for actors, and so many actors have made it to films from there. And for me, too, it has been a great transition from the small screen to the big screen.

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there were a lot of radical, fashionable young people on the streets and in the venues.

There is obviously going to be a transition. There is a transition with every quarterback going from college to the NFL. I'm excited for it.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures, we seem to be ignoring one of the most massive bail-outs ever: the taxpayer-funded process of transitioning people from analog to digital television.

I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

I was there when Gordon Brown basically was taking over - so right in the middle of that transition. It was fantastic; I learnt a lot.