Television Quotes

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.