Television Quotes

"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera"

Robert Ashley, Composer

"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything"

Merv Griffin, Entertainer

"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television"

Roma Downey, Actress

"Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain"

Paul Daniels, Entertainer

"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me"

Stan Lee, Writer

"The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?"

Elayne Boosler, Comedian

"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries"

Michelle Hunziker, Actress

"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional"

M. Emmet Walsh, Actor

"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off"

Jack Paar, Entertainer

"Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years"

Gavin MacLeod, Actor

"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor"

Ricardo Montalban, Actor

"I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue"

Faith Hill, Musician

"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation"

Lee Child, Writer

"I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television"

Gerald McRaney, Actor

"Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid"

Tom Wopat, Actor

"Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery"

Gates McFadden, Actress

"I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show"

Debra Messing, Actress

"I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system"

Tom C. Clark, Politician

"I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time"

Mako, Actor

"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"If you make compelling television, they will come"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself"

Emily Watson, Actress

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