Best 1632 quotes in «television quotes» category

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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