Television Quotes - Page 17

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.