Television Quotes

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

I think looks do matter on television.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.