Television Quotes

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show"

David Selby, Actor

"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through"

David Selby, Actor

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace"

John Lennon, Musician

"Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say"

Teri Garr, Actress

"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"I want to bring more gymnastics on television"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me"

John Sayles, Director

"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies"

David Cronenberg, Director

"It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I just always had a love for television and movies"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

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