Television Quotes

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it's rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

Television is a passivity.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

My fame is due to broadcast television.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.