Television Quotes

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.

Movies are movies, television is television.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else.

I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Television wasn't prestigious.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Nothing good about the sun if you're trying to watch television with out curtains.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

We stand or fall by television.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.