Television Quotes

"It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"I liked television, and television liked me"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"

Federico Fellini, Director

"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasum

"We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother"

Dana Delany, Actress

"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping"

Dana Delany, Actress

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You"

Ian Hislop, Editor

"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career"

John Tesh, Musician

"I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it"

John Tesh, Musician

"You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"I was initially a leading man, but only on television"

Gary Cole, Actor

"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress"

Billy Tauzin, Politician

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing"

Robert Bresson, Director

"Every movie I've been in has ended up on television"

Tony Curtis, 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

"Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world"

Will McDonough, Writer

"CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television"

Mike Rogers

"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio"

Martin Milner, Actor

"The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco"

Gary Cole, Actor

"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society"

Richard J. Daley, Politician

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper"

Rod Serling, Writer

"By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings"

Will McDonough, Writer

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

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