Television Quotes - Page 22

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

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. . . .

I like both movies and TV, for different reasons. Films are amazing. It's so historic and exciting. Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.