Television Quotes

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

Success begets more in television.

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

I feel like I'm part of television history.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.