Television Quotes

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to in blogs and newspapers. I better get myself culturally attuned.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on television with pool cues, who would win? 1) Ricky Schroder 2) Gary Coleman 3) The television viewing public

George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

However little television you watch, watch less.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.