Television Quotes - Page 11

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

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.

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

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.