Television Quotes - Page 24

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.

But reality television is here to stay.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Television is such an evolving medium.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.