Television Quotes

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

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.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Television is intensely personal.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.