Famous Quotes & Sayings

Micky Dolenz

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michio Kaku

I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.

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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

James Lipton

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

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.

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

Garry Shandling

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

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.

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.