Television Quotes

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

Isn't television glamourous?

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.