Television Quotes

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 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.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.