Television Quotes
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The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.
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I distrust all television doctors.
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I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
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I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
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I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
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I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.
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It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
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You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
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Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
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Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
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Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.
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HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
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Please, do not adjust your television set.
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The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.
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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
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When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
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It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.
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I love uplifting television.
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My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.
