Television Quotes

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

"This attack is clearly visible all over the world on television. Consequently, world equity markets are in turmoil. The uncertainty created by the attacks are likely to bring about more uncertainty abroad."

"It's the most watched percentage of television."

"Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence."

"Most of the sponsors and partners you deal with are interested in what your Joyce Julius television numbers are, what your number of impressions are,"

"We've had a long ride back from a cancellation of a short-lived television series to the release of a major motion picture. I don't know if there's any other story equivalent to that in Hollywood history,"

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."

"Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."

"When you do television, there's more to do, and when you do new television, there's a lot more to do, especially when you don't have partner. I miss not having that person,"

"What they want to censor, what they want to regulate are the most popular television shows. We're mistaking the will of the PTC for the will of the public. ... It really is a form of censorship."

"I still remember watching on television when Gary McSwegan scored a brilliant equaliser against Marseille that put Rangers on the way in the Champions League in 1992. And I went to a few of the Celtic home games in their run to the UEFA Cup final two years ago. It is the goals that you remember. Scoring them in Europe is a great way to make a name for yourself and get the limelight."

"I was told by both an agent and a casting director that I'd never work in television."

"But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world."

"The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?"

"What they want to censor, what they want to regulate are the most popular television shows, ... We're mistaking the will of the PTC for the will of the public. ... It really is a form of censorship."

"I'm kind of glad. If we had won, we would have come in here and watched television for two hours to see if the Phillies won. I'm not saying I would have complained. Obviously, that would have been better than this. But it will all work out."

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."

"Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off."