Television Quotes

• I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Newspapers
  • Dozen
  • Globes

• Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Character
  • Actually
  • Filipino

• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Help
  • Information
  • Songs

• I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Trying
  • Theater
  • Profession

• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

  

  William Bennett
  • Time
  • Stories
  • Insult

• I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Girl
  • Period
  • Television

• How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Day
  • Television
  • Looked

• I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Society

• When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

  

  Phil Daniels
  • Kids
  • Sticks
  • Thug

• There are so many things out there now like these 30-minute workouts. I don't know if they work, but a lot of people have jobs and they don't have time to go to the gym. They can do those little 30-minute workouts they see on TV, or get one of those little portable gyms for their house. I think that's a good start.

  

  Andre Reed
  • Jobs
  • Gym
  • Workouts

• American television really is pathetic.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Television
  • Pathetic

• 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.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Television
  • Characters

• I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Quality
  • Television
  • Episodic

• When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Star
  • Anything
  • Everybody

• I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Help
  • Entertain

• 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.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Family
  • Sometimes
  • Television

• I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Future
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Stories
  • Cousins
  • Barbecue

• I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

  

  Stuart Appleby
  • World
  • Television
  • Watching

• An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Television
  • I Think
  • Actress

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