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I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.

I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

If I want a television, I would love the buy American-made televisions like they used to have where they had GE and Sylvania and all of the different. Today, it's Samsung, it's LG, it's Sony. We don't make televisions anymore.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on television with pool cues, who would win? 1) Ricky Schroder 2) Gary Coleman 3) The television viewing public

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?

If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

If you don't like me, you don't like me. You can call me anytime; I'll have an opinion on just about anything. I will also tell you if I shouldn't have an opinion on something - I just make television shows.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from 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.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I got an early education from television.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It's like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their loyal audience base. It was an experience.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

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

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.