Television Quotes - Page 55

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.

Television is intensely personal.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?