Television Quotes

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

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.

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

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

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

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

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.