Television Quotes

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.