Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hardwick

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

Fran Lebowitz

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Fran Lebowitz

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

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

Gale Harold

My interests are not really with television, per se.

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

J. J. Abrams

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

J. G. Ballard

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Isabelle Huppert

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

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.

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.

John Pilger

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Nick Hancock

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

Michael Pollan

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

Michael Pollan

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.

Michael Pollan

Lawns are a form of television

Martha Plimpton

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

Mark Burnett

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Mark Burnett

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

Ted Shackelford

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

Ted Turner

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

Ted Turner

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Theodore White

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Tessa Jowell

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty,

Melissa Rosenberg

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Megyn Kelly

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

Matthew Lillard

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Matt LeBlanc

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

Mary Tyler Moore

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

Paddy Chayefsky

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

Mort Sahl

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.