Television Quotes

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

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

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

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.