Television Quotes
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I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
Janet Jackson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson
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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.
Alan Hansen
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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
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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
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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.
Ed Gordon
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I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.
Courteney Cox
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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
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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.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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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.
Candice Patton
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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.
Eddie McGuire
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I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.
Conan O'Brien
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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.
Nico Santos
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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
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I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
Tony Goldwyn
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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
Phil Daniels
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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
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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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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
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Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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American television really is pathetic.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.
Barack Obama
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I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.
Robert Winston