Television Quotes

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

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.

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.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

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.