Television Quotes

"Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

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

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth"

John Olver, Politician

"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them"

Diane Wakoski, Poet

"Year Two is a critical year for any television show"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"I think my own strengths are in television production"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set"

Harriet Van Horne, Journalist

"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television"

William Jackson

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other"

Hugh Mackay

"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media"

Brenda Lee, Musician

"I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less"

Kiana Tom, Model

"Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level"

January Jones, Actress

"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"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television"

Bob Greene, Journalist

"I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio"

David R. Gergen

"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed"

Cybill Shepherd, Actress

"I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books"

David Strathairn, Actor

"For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids"

David Duchovny, Actor

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

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