Television Quotes

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

I want to make smart television.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.