Television Quotes

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

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

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster.

I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.