Television Quotes

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Have you noticed that families on TV never watch television?

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one.

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

The audience is never wrong.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.

oh how television diminishes everything.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Television is a vast wasteland.