Television Quotes

"Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet"

"The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69"

"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy"

Sally Field, Actress

"I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away"

Norm MacDonald, Actor

"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television"

Mark Russell, Writer

"Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life"

Robert Redford, Actor

"People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"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

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story"

Rex Stout, Writer

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while"

Peter Benchley, Author

"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

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