Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabelle Huppert

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

I don't think if we're on television 20 times, we're going to automatically be in the tournament.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

Judith Crist

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

Gerald R. Ford

Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Jessica Savitch

Television is intensely personal.

Gilda Radner

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Gillian Anderson

When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Oprah Winfrey

It's just a television show. But, wouldn't this be cool?

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

Jillian Bach

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

Jerry Seinfeld

The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

Jerome Lawrence

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jim Gaffigan

Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

Jim Gaffigan

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I like both movies and TV, for different reasons. Films are amazing. It's so historic and exciting. Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

Gates McFadden

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

George Will

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

Jeff Pinkner

The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.

Goodman Ace

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Giuliana Rancic

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Ian Mckellen

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Hugh Downs

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Gina Bellman

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

Giancarlo Esposito

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

Gale Harold

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Chris Hardwick

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Chris Pratt

Television is such an evolving medium.

George W. Bush

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.