Television Quotes

"The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television"

"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan"

"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories"

"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them"

Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity

"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras"

June Allyson, Actress

"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen"

Karl Urban, Actor

"Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television"

Johnny Olson, Entertainer

"We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior"

Jerry Springer, Celebrity

"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"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"

Mark E. Hyman, Celebrity

"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"

Terry Semel, Businessman

"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer"

Michael Ironside, Actor

"I want to make smart television"

Michael Ironside, Actor

"Television has tremendous power over our lives"

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity

"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"

Jamie Farr, Actor

"Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns"

George Gilder, Writer

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

Chris Elliott, Comedian

"Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

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

Shirley Knight, Actress

"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance"

S. I. Hayakawa, Politician

"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me"

Arthur Bremer, Criminal

"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while"

Robert Klein, Comedian

"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"

Tony Danza, Actor

"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"There was only so much television you could do"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"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"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television"

Theodore White, Journalist

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