Television Quotes - Page 45

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.