Television Quotes
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Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.
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I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.
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Don't you ever, EVER talk that way about television.
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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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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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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.
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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.
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The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
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Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
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I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
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Since starting up with the band again it’s kind of shaken every cobweb out of my head and got me rattled in a way—probably in a good way. I can’t relax any more. I can’t sit down and watch the television. I’m torn between the world of being a father, a homeowner and a creative artist and a rock ’n’ roll singer.
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Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.
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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 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.
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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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.
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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.
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A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch.
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I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television.
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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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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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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
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I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.
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I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.
