Television Quotes

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

There is no dignity in television.

When you do television, there's more to do, and when you do new television, there's a lot more to do, especially when you don't have partner. I miss not having that person.

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Television and I grew up together.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

But reality television is here to stay.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out