Television Quotes

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Television speeded everything up.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Isn't television glamourous?

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

I'm very wary of news on television.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.