Television Quotes - Page 26

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when they come up to you and are like, 'That storyline is amazing and really spoke to me in my life,' and it's really cool. I really enjoy it.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.