Television Quotes - Page 23

On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

The future of American film lies on television.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.