Television Quotes

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

I was a fan of the television show as a kid but I wouldn't say that I've followed all the movies or anything like that. But I was a television junkie as a kid.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

I was quite interested to do television series and I started exploring an idea of a longer commitment, a new idea, a new TV show that would've meant a longer commitment but I opened my mind up.

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.