Television Quotes
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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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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
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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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Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.
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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.
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Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
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Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
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Please, do not adjust your television set.
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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact that in television, characters don't have to say things. In comics, people have to say I feel this way, or I want to do this, and you can do so much with gesture and movement and facial expressions that you can do sometimes facial expression stuff in comics, but you can do so more if somebody can move around without actually speaking. That leads to a different style of writing between the two mediums.
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
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There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
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I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
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It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
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After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
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It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
