Television Quotes
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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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A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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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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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
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I grew up in front of a TV.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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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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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.
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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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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.
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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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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.
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I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.
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We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings.
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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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My television is the tabernacle.
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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
