Television Quotes

I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Television is intensely personal.

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.