Television Quotes

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.