Television Quotes
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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
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Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing -
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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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've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.
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But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
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Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
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More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
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You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
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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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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.
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If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.
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I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
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I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
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We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.
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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
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I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
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A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.
