Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Walker

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

Caroline Rhea

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

Mike Rogers

CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

Kurt Loder

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

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.

Natasha Lyonne

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Neil Cross

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.

George H. W. Bush

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

Jesse Ventura

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

Jean Baudrillard

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

Bunker Roy

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Jared Harris

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

Laurence Fishburne

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

John Green

Television is a passivity.

Pat Sajak

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

Marya Mannes

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

Marshall McLuhan

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

Nic Pizzolatto

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Nhat Hanh

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Ken Dodd

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Kristen Johnston

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

Kiefer Sutherland

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

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.

Fred Rogers

I got into television because I hated it so,

Patti LuPone

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Lucille Ball

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.