Television Quotes

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.

To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

I love doing both theater and television.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing and the TV separate.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out of the house! There was no watching television on weekends.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.