Television Quotes
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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New Year’s has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There’s no gifts, no feast, just…bad TV.
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I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
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The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
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Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
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I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
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I'm a TV man, not a money man.
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Can't sleep unless the TV is on.
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A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
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“Modern television evangelists are mostly ignorant men with closed minds who have glimpsed the incredible reach of television – even its political influence – and spend a sizable part of their air time pleading for money.”
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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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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What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
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It's so important... to have a variety of representation on television.
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I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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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.
