Best 1632 quotes in «television quotes» category

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

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.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.