Famous Quotes & Sayings

Newton Minow

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

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

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

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Alan Hansen

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Al Michaels

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Charlize Theron

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Eartha Kitt

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

David Icke

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

David Brinkley

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Louis C. K.

There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Bernard Cornwell

Television is a young person's medium.

Bob Hope

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Charlotte Rae

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.

Charlton Heston

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Charley Pride

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

James Wolk

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

James Wolk

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.

Bille August

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Edward R. Murrow

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..

Bruce Boxleitner

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Brian Baumgartner

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

Jane Fonda

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Jamie Farr

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Jamie Farr

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.