Television Quotes

WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.

I think television is really incredible because of the fact that you get to sit with a character for so, and the character does something different, every week. I think that's really interesting.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

I was raised on NBC television.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

I can say that. I have a television show.

My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.