Television Quotes

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I'm a huge fan of television, and it's a really good time to be a fan of television, because there's so much good stuff out there. In every genre, really.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

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.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

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

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.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

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.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so she doesn't miss a word walking from room to room.