Television Quotes - Page 7

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Television is a vast wasteland.

oh how television diminishes everything.

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.