Best 1632 quotes in «television quotes» category

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

Have you noticed that families on TV never watch television?

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.

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.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.