Television Quotes

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I essentially get to represent my community on television.

I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

I want to make smart television.

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.

Lawns are a form of television

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

That most people will not accept the fact that you are - and who was it that said that eventually Donald Trump is going to go on television and insists he never ran for president?

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement.

I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.