Television Quotes

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

I liked television, and television liked me.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

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

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.