Television Quotes

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

Television, cable, features are always out there.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that's it.

It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.