Television Quotes

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.