Television Quotes - Page 34

Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

I know a guy who writes on the show, it was his episode, and he called and said, "Would you do it?" And I said, "Yeah." There's not really much else to tell, except that I was thrilled to be on The Simpsons, because it's one of the greatest series in the history of television.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.