Television Quotes

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.

When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.