Television Quotes

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years.

Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.

In television, the creator is really the voice...

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.