Television Quotes
I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.
If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.
I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.
I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.
I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.
