Television Quotes

"The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I love the pressure of doing live television. I think it's that immediacy that I respond to"

Kevin Nealon, Actor

"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended"

Will McDonough, Writer

"Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual"

John Tesh, Musician

"Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television"

Brittany Snow, Actress

"Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York"

Roddy McDowall, Actor

"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television"

Linda Evans, Actress

"In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again"

Joe Simon

"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that"

John Tesh, Musician

"And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person"

Mark Russell, Writer

"You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model"

Kiana Tom, Model

"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on"

George Clooney, Actor

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