Television Quotes

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.