Television Quotes

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.

The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that

When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.