Television Quotes
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
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.
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 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.
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.
If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.
Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?
Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.
Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.
The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.
Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.
Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.
Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.