Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Caliendo

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

Gedde Watanabe

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

Geena Davis

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Gary Cole

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Eddie Cahill

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Jools Holland

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Joni Mitchell

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Joni Mitchell

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Kenneth Lonergan

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Norman Mailer

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Orson Welles

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Helen McCrory

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

Henry Ian Cusick

I feel like I'm part of television history.

John Krasinski

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

John Irving

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

John Hodgman

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

John Hodgman

My fame is due to broadcast television.

Say they're under two years old, there's a television in their room, and they never watch that television -- they still tend to be overweight.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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.

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

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.

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.