Television Quotes

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

There are great characters on television.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.