Television Quotes

You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.