Television Quotes

My television is the tabernacle.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

I have no television - I hate it.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

Television can only destroy.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.