Television Quotes

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

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.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.