Television Quotes
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.
Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
