Television Quotes

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.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

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.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.