Television Quotes

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

I don't watch television.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

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

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.

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

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

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called 'A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.