Television Quotes

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

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I love what I am doing. I have a wonderful business. I have a wonderful television show that's doing - continues to do phenomenally in the ratings. I mean, it's been really a lot of fun.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

I got an early education from television.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I don't watch a lot of television.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

I was proud of 'House, MD,' and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for a television show. I loved Hugh Laurie and was proud to be by his side that long and to be trusted by him.

I don't have time, I watch movies, or shows people are talking about. Television is the medium I use the least; I'd rather use my computer, iPhone or iPad.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.