Television Quotes - Page 50

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

Television, cable, features are always out there.

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?