Television Quotes

"Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show"

"My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them"

Victor Garber, Actor

"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil"

Walter Salles, Director

"When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground"

William Scranton, Politician

"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it"

Norman Granz, Musician

"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are"

Robert Urich, Actor

"I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor"

Katie Price, Model

"Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies"

Richard King, Director

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums"

Joe Morton, Actor

"I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids"

David Morse

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Movies are movies, television is television"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice"

Brion James, Actor

"We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films"

Bo Derek, Actress

"Television wasn't prestigious"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting"

David Ginola, Athlete

"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"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

"One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way"

David Icke, Athlete

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

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