Television Quotes

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

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.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.