Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hanks

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

Shania Twain

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

Scott M. Gimple

It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.

Leonard Maltin

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Neil Postman

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

Neil Postman

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

Scott Pelley

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

Lesley-Anne Down

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

Marc Maron

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Simon Baker

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

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.

Maria Semple

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Patrick Warburton

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

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.

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.

Peaches Geldof

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

Kenneth Branagh

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

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.

Robin Day

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Robert Redford

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Robbie Amell

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

Thomas Sowell

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Robert Greenblatt

I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

Richard Lloyd

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

Rebecca Eaton

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.

Ross Kemp

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.