Television Quotes

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

There is no dignity in television.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Television is intensely personal.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.