Television Quotes
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.
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I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.
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One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
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Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.
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My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
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If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.
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I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.
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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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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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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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I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.
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I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
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I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.
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A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
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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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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
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When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
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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 think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
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I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.
