Television Quotes

"It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night"

Darryl F. Zanuck, Director

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations"

Earl Blumenauer, Politician

"I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper"

David Brenner, Comedian

"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)"

John Podhoretz, Writer

"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present"

Doc Severinsen, Musician

"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

"Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves"

Dave Haywood, Musician

"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years"

Lena Horne, Actress

"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it"

David Brinkley, Journalist

"You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights"

Bob Barker, Actor

"I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive"

Burt Ward, Actor

"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money"

Fran Drescher, Actress

"Isn't television glamourous?"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost"

Bruce Paltrow, Producer

"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"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"

Arto Lindsay, Musician

"Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay"

Bob Barker, Actor

"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"There is no dignity in television"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5"

Bernard Pivot, Journalist

"I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy"

Chris Wallace, Journalist

"Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description"

Alexander Kluge, Director

"Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me"

Alfre Woodard, Actress

"Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now"

Angie Stone, Musician

"As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

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