Television Quotes - Page 21

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.