Television Quotes - Page 30

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.