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My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

My television is the tabernacle.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.

Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

oh how television diminishes everything.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.