Television Quotes

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

You have to relish the challenge of television.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I want to make smart television.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.