Television Quotes

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

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

All television is children's television.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.