Television Quotes - Page 54

It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

My fame is due to broadcast television.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

Television is a passivity.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've looked at it and gone, "That's just not funny." It only comes alive when you speak it.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and I'm happy about that, but now the recent film and TV stuff have validated me, as if that makes any sense.

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.