Television Quotes
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In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
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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.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
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The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
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If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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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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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
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There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
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I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.
