Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dana Carvey

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

Damon Lindelof

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

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.

Atom Egoyan

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

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.

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Adam Savage

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

Andrzej Wajda

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Andy Cohen

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

Adrianne Palicki

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

James Wolk

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

James Wolk

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

Annabella Sciorra

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

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.

Edward R. Murrow

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..

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.

Cullen Hightower

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Doris Lessing

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Criss Angel

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Dan Harmon

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

E. B. White

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Andrew Rannells

I love doing both theater and television.

Chuck Palahniuk

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

Anthony Edwards

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.