Best 1632 quotes in «television quotes» category

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

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

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.