Television Quotes

• Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.

  

  George Gerbner
  • Movie
  • Violence
  • Dosage

• My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Family
  • Theatre
  • Involved

• Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.

  

  Sarah Kate Ellis
  • Community
  • Diversity
  • Identities

• I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Television
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Wanted
  • Television
  • Newspapers

• 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.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Fun
  • Theatre
  • Audience

• Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

  

  Wolf Blitzer
  • Reading
  • Happens
  • Newspapers

• I'm a TV man, not a money man.

  

  Silvio Santos
  • Money
  • Man
  • Television

• When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

  

  Nick Hancock
  • Television
  • Hide
  • Sofa

• Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Television
  • Introduced
  • Sets

• If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Television
  • Comedian
  • Political Point

• Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

  

  Steven Bochco
  • Experience
  • Novel
  • Mediums

• Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • Music
  • Written
  • Continue

• New Year’s has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There’s no gifts, no feast, just…bad TV.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Television
  • Holiday
  • No Gifts

• Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.

  

  Elinor Guggenheimer
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Intellect

• Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Television
  • Candidates
  • Voters

• The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Brain
  • Forget
  • Television

• Getting into television was a total fluke.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Television
  • Flukes

• I didn’t know why I was thinking about all these things—except that’s what I always did. I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. I could control whatever I wanted to watch. I could switch the channels anytime I wanted.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Control
  • Television
  • Channels

• Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Film
  • Television
  • Difference

• I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Live
  • Programs
  • Jools Holland

• It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Sometimes
  • Theater
  • Horseshoes

• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Television
  • Making
  • Priorities

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