300 Quotes on Television

• Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

  Author: Adolph Zukor

• It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

  Author: John Zorn

• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Author: Darryl Zanuck

• In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

  Author: Loretta Young

• The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

  Author: Dick York

• I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Author: Frank Wright

• I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

  Author: Terry Wogan

• We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

  Author: Ernie Wise

• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Author: Shelley Winters

• If you make compelling television, they will come.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

  Author: Paul Winchell

• I think television defeats ventriloquism.

  Author: Paul Winchell

• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• I got an early education from television.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Author: Montel Williams

• To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  Author: Vanna White

• He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

  Author: Theodore White

• I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.

  Author: Pat Weaver

• Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• 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.

  Author: Gerard Way

• I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

  Author: Emily Watson

• If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  Author: John Warnock

• When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

  Author: Burt Ward

• You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• I don't watch television.

  Author: Ray Walston

• But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

  Author: M. Walsh

• I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

  Author: Chris Wallace

• I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

  Author: Bruce Vilanch

• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

  Author: Robert Urich

• I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

  Author: Karl Urban

• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  Author: Karl Urban

• That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

  Author: Shania Twain

• I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

  Author: John Thorn

• On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

  Author: John Tesh

• I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

  Author: John Tesh

• We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

  Author: Max Sydow

• I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

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

  Author: David Strathairn

• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

  Author: Rex Stout

• I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

  Author: Angie Stone

• In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

  Author: David Stiers

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

  Author: Howard Stern

• Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

  Author: Harry Stanton

• It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

  Author: Robert Stack

• I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Author: Jerry Springer

• And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

  Author: James Spader

• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Author: Aaron Sorkin

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

  Author: Kevin Sorbo

• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

  Author: Brett Somers

• I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  Author: Mel Smith

• My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

  Author: Joe Simon

• Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

  Author: Joel Siegel

• I liked television, and television liked me.

  Author: Joel Siegel

• Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

  Author: Hugh Sidey

• I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

  Author: Tony Shalhoub

• I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

  Author: Rod Serling

• I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

  Author: Terry Semel

• Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

  Author: Peter Sellers

• I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• 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.

  Author: David Selby

• The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

  Author: David Selby

• There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

  Author: Jon Secada

• I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

  Author: John Sebastian

• My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

  Author: John Sebastian

• There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

  Author: William Scranton

• Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

  Author: C. Scott

• He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

  Author: Bill Scott

• He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

  Author: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  Author: John Sayles

• People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Television is intensely personal.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Isn't television glamourous?

  Author: Adam Savage

• There is no dignity in television.

  Author: Adam Savage

• My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

  Author: Adam Savage

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  Author: Walter Salles

• Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

  Author: Richard Russo

• I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

  Author: Mark Russell

• People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

  Author: Mark Russell

• Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

  Author: Karl Rove

• When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

  Author: David Roth

• Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

  Author: Phil Rizzuto

• Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

  Author: John Ritter

• I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

  Author: Frank Rich

• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  Author: Frank Rich

• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Author: Donna Rice

• Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

  Author: Donna Rice

• Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

  Author: James Reston

• I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

  Author: Lynn Redgrave

• Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

  Author: Charlotte Rae

• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

  Author: Charley Pride

• Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

  Author: Charley Pride

• They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

  Author: Steve Powers

• I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

  Author: Michael Powell

• Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

  Author: Maury Povich

• Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).

  Author: John Podhoretz

• This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.

  Author: Bernard Pivot

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

  Author: John Pilger

• I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

  Author: Tom Petty

• Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

  Author: Shimon Peres

• It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

  Author: George Peppard

• The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

  Author: Alexandra Paul

• I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

  Author: Alexandra Paul

• Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

  Author: Bruce Paltrow

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  Author: Michael Palin

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  Author: Jack Paar

• In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

  Author: John Olver

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

  Author: Johnny Olson

• Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

  Author: Johnny Olson

• The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

  Author: Sandra Oh

• Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

  Author: Michael O'Donoghue

• That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

  Author: Donald O'Connor

• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

  Author: Christopher Nolan

• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

• Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

  Author: Bill Mumy

• I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

  Author: Martin Mull

• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

  Author: Paul Muldoon

• The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Author: Bill Moyers

• We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

  Author: Bill Moyers

• I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

  Author: Andrew Morton

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  Author: Van Morrison

• I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

  Author: Rick Moranis

• Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

  Author: Mary Moore

• I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

  Author: Mary Moore

• Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

  Author: Eugenio Montale

• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Author: Ricardo Montalban

• The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

  Author: Ashley Montagu

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  Author: Walter Mondale

• I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

  Author: Katherine Moennig

• As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

• When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

  Author: Newton Minow

• He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

• Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

  Author: Martin Milner

• I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  Author: J. Miller

• I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

  Author: Debra Messing

• If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

  Author: Michael Medved

• Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

  Author: Michael Medved

• The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

  Author: Gerald McRaney

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.

  Author: Julian McMahon

• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

  Author: Jim McKay

• This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

  Author: Jim McKay

• For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

  Author: John McGahern

• I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

  Author: John McGahern

• Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

  Author: Roddy McDowall

• I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

  Author: Will McDonough

• I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

  Author: Will McDonough

• When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

  Author: Will McDonough

• I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

  Author: Will McDonough

• Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

  Author: Will McDonough

• The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

  Author: Will McDonough

• The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

  Author: Will McDonough

• The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

  Author: Will McDonough

• The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

  Author: Will McDonough

• Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

  Author: Chi McBride

• I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

  Author: Chi McBride

• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

  Author: Willie Mays

• I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

  Author: Jason Marsden

• Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.

  Author: Jason Marsden

• The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

  Author: Marc Maron

• On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

  Author: Marc Maron

• This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  Author: Camryn Manheim

• It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

  Author: Camryn Manheim

• Television wasn't prestigious.

  Author: Dorothy Malone

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