Television Quotes

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.