Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Condon

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

I think they've been unfairly treated, ... You don't need to be in the Superdome, you look at the television and you can see it.

Sharon Thomas

I watch television and I cry, and then I watch television and then I cry, and then I go on.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Bille August

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Dirk Benedict

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Dave Navarro

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Bruce Boxleitner

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Dick Wolf

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.

Dick Van Dyke

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Debra Wilson

I got an early education from television.

Atom Egoyan

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Adam Savage

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

Adrianne Palicki

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

Barry Bonds

I think we'll probably have a sellout. This thing is probably all over television right now.

Conan O'Brien

MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.

Conan O'Brien

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

David Boreanaz

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

David Ogden Stiers

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

David Ogilvy

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

David Mamet

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

Condola Rashad

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

Newton Minow

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

When you're live on television ?you've got to be very concise, very brief, and very direct,