Television Quotes
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
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You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
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Television was essentially my college.
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And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
