Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sweeney

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Anna Deavere Smith

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Alicia Keys

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

Dorothy Malone

Television wasn't prestigious.

Donna Leon

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

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.

David Caruso

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Daniel Tosh

I can say that. I have a television show.

Daniel Tosh

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

Daniel Tosh

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

David Letterman

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

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.

Dawn Ostroff

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know,

Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Anson Mount

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Anthea Turner

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

Rick Baker

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

Barry Bonds

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

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

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.

Bob Hope

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Charlotte Rae

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Charlton Heston

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.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

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

Newton Minow

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

James Lipton

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

Garry Shandling

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.