Television Quotes

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

There is no dignity in television.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

There was only so much television you could do.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.