Television Quotes
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I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
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Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.
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My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
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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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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
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It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
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I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
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I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with each other. You have to leave it to the writers to know what makes great television.
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When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
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American television really is pathetic.
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
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I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
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I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.
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I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.
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I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
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I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
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It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
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Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.
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Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
