Top 1200 Television Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Television is a very powerful medium and I am open to doing any type of shows on television.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

I've done a lot of television over the last years, and you know, with some television productions, if you can do with just one take, you can move on and do something else.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.

It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else.

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things I have against television.

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.