Television Quotes

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.

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.