Television Quotes

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

All television is children's television.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.