Television Quotes
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
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.
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.
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
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.
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
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?
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.
I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television
In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.