Television Quotes

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.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

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.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.