Television Quotes

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.