‘Survivor’ is one of CBS’s signature series and symbol of enduring quality and entertainment on prime time television.
I thought I was signed up to be on ‘Heroes.’ It turns out I signed up to be on ‘Survivor.’
I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.
After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
Hi, I’m Bill. I’m a birth survivor.
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
I’m a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I’ve got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.
Survivor Series is all about teamwork.
Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens – when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results – we think: ‘How lucky!’ But we don’t usually acknowledge all the times when things just… fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.
My novella, ‘The Lucky One,’ is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
Most people I run into say, I haven’t missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don’t, but if you do, you’re a loyal viewer.
I will talk to anybody about ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ because I’m proud of the show and the actors and directors and the entire crew. I just like doing the work, and I want people watching the show so we can make more.
‘The Lucky One’ features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin – who’s about the age my dad was when he started at CBS – working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.
I don’t consider myself a survivor; that’s someone who has gone through something terrible.
The best life in the world. ‘Survivor’ was nothing compared to what I did, and it’s just that way.
Of all the programs, I watch sporting events live and I watch ‘Survivor’ live. Everything else I TiVo.
Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don’t see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.
I have done a lot greater things than ‘Survivor.’ Going through SEAL training was much harder than ‘Survivor.’
Johnny ‘Fairplay’ Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of ‘Survivor’ ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.
You look at ‘Survivor’s Remorse.’ Or ‘Blackish.’ Or Issa Rae’s brilliant, funny ‘Insecure,’ which started out on YouTube but is now on HBO. And you see multifaceted representations of the African-American experience. It’s insanely exciting.
I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch ‘Survivor’ every week.
Survivor is like rock ‘n’ roll – you can do what you want.
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS’s ‘Nova’ series – the most successful science show on the tube. ‘Survivor’ and ‘X Factor’ get twice the ratings.
‘Taxicab Confessions’ always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like ‘Survivor’ because it’s well made.
I think the last reality show I watched was the first ‘Survivor’. That was a long time ago.
I haven’t talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don’t really want to define myself that way.
I loved ‘Survivor Series’ as a kid. It’s one of our biggest pay-per-views, and I would love to be part of that, just for the bucket list!
I have survivor’s remorse.
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There’s this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don’t survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny’s Child telling me I didn’t need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.
We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. ‘Survivor,’ for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it’s our date. I love it.
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said ‘if you ever get a second chance for something, you’ve got to go all the way.’
Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don’t need to do it very much. ‘Survivor’ is like that.
I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is still very successful, I think it gives them a lot of strength.
Look, I’m a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can’t get insurance.
You know, I suffer kind of from survivor’s guilt. It’s like you suffer from success because you feel like – why me? Why am I so special? What makes me so different from the next man and why am I able to achieve these things that this person can’t? Prayer is the only thing that helps me get through it.
The ‘Survivor’ community is very tight. I mean very tight.
I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I’m not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.
Miami Beach – that’s where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate – my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own.
The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like ‘The Biggest Loser’ and even ‘Amazing Race.’ You learn a lot about the world, it’s fun and nobody’s interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I’m a huge fan of ‘Survivor.’
When they were working on the movie ‘Lone Survivor,’ all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can’t be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
I don’t want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I’m not interested in doing that anymore.
‘Hibakusha’ is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.
I don’t like it to be compared to ‘Survivor.’ The idea of ‘Survivor’ is to kill each other off to win the prize. There’s no killing in Gilligan’s Island.
My kids – even though it’s a family business – they don’t even know what day or time ‘Survivor’ is even on. They just know it’s on TiVo.
I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.
In ‘Bigg Boss,’ there were so many things that I didn’t say and as a result, people thought I was a fake. I have not let it happen in ‘Survivor.’
If I were on ‘Survivor,’ I might be the first off the island.
I don’t miss a minute of ‘Survivor.’
We dominated Survivor – there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That’s the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I’ve got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.
It is too soon to tell, but old, tired ‘Survivor’ last night beat ‘X Factor.’ We’re really proud of that. We’re anticipating a very strong season for CBS.
Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.
I see myself as a survivor, and I’m not ashamed to say I’m a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.
It wasn’t the first reality show, but ‘Survivor’ was the first big network hit, and I’m proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, ‘Survivor: Amazon.’
What ‘Survivor’ is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.
‘Survivor’ was not fixed. There’s no way to fix ‘Survivor.’
I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.
I’m not a victim – I’m a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.
I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that’s what ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ has been for me.
This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.
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