Television Quotes

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

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.

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.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.