Television Quotes

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

There is no dignity in television.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

There was only so much television you could do.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.