Television Quotes

"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

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience"

Joss Whedon, Writer

"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen"

John Sebastian, Musician

"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency"

Hugh Sidey, Journalist

"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim"

Dawn French, Comedian

"The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies"

Bille August, Director

"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job"

Sela Ward, 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

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records"

Martin Mull, 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

"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie"

Nora Ephron, Author

"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show"

Barry Levinson, Director

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want"

Clive Barnes, Journalist

"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"

Nicholas Johnson

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

S. I. Hayakawa, Politician

"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

"The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it"

Guy Burgess, Criminal

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me"

William Jackson

"I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television"

Gale Gordon, Actor

"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television"

Woody Allen, Director

"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

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