Television Quotes
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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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
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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
Larry Gelbart
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
William Bennett
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
Stuart Appleby
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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.
Nick Valensi The Strokes
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I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.
Emily Raboteau
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I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.
Whitney Port
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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.
Ned Vizzini
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The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.
Elijah Wood
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I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.
Kelly Clarkson
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Lisa Kudrow
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I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.
Newton N. Minow
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Don't you ever, EVER talk that way about television.
Dan Castellaneta
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Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.
Chuck Klosterman
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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.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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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.
Morfydd Clark
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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.
Lisa Edelstein
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Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.
John Ross Bowie
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We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
Steve Jobs
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Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.
Conan O'Brien
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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.
Courtney Love
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I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television.
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
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Using the popularity of television channels, he is selling drugs which are adulterated. This is a huge breach of trust to his followers.
Brinda Karat