Television Quotes - Page 42

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Television leaves no external scars.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.