Television Quotes

"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"I'm very wary of news on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"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"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene"

Andrew Morton

"Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale"

Honor Blackman, Actress

"And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now"

Ed Balls, Politician

"Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12"

Gavin MacLeod, Actor

"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things"

Dick York, Actor

"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television"

Katherine Moennig, Actress

"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour"

Frederic Raphael

"There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"Television is a young person's medium"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors"

Alexander Kluge, Director

"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"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"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other"

Andrew H. Malcolm

"I got an early education from television"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now"

John Ritter, Actor

"I don't watch television"

Ray Walston, Actor

"Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary"

Peter Sellers, Actor

"I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants"

Florence Henderson, Actress

"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada"

Samantha Bee, Comedian

"I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Book - what they make a movie out of for television"

Leonard L. Levinson

"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news"

James Reston, Journalist

"That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

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