Television Quotes
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.
There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it’s a big responsibility, and sometimes it’s a lot of pressure on me.
When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.
When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff
I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.
Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
