Television Quotes

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

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

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

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.

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

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.