Television Quotes

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.

I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

There are great characters on television.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.