Television Quotes - Page 53

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.