Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

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.

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.

Pauline Kael

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

Pauline Kael

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Jim Parrack

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

Joanna Kerns

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

George Lucas

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Elvis Presley

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Linda Ellerbee

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

Josephine Hart

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Penelope Keith

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Peter Sellers

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Peaches Geldof

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Graydon Carter

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Greg Behrendt

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

John Larroquette

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

Kate Jackson

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

Justin Kirk

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

Josh Schwartz

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

Kyle Chandler

Television, cable, features are always out there.

Julianna Margulies

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Julianna Margulies

What a wonderful time for women on television.

Karl Albrecht

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

K. D. Lang

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Julian Fellowes

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Patrick Warburton

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.