Television Quotes
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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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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I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.
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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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Please, do not adjust your television set.
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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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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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In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
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I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
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Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.
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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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So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
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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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Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
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Don’t stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.
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Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
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It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
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On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
