Television Quotes

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.