Television Quotes - Page 64

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

However little television you watch, watch less.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on television with pool cues, who would win? 1) Ricky Schroder 2) Gary Coleman 3) The television viewing public

George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.