Television Quotes

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I'm not a competitive person.

I don't watch a lot of television.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

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

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

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

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

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.

Television speeded everything up.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I want to make smart television.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Television wasn't prestigious.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.

The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with.

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

I love doing both theater and television.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.