Television Quotes
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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
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I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
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Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
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I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.
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My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
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I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.
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I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
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The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.
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I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
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I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
