Television Quotes

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

I didn't really do too much television. I really went straight into film.

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.