Television Quotes
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
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.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.
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 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 was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
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.
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.
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.
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?
I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
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.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.