Television Quotes

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Television is intensely personal.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.