Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Gene Roddenberry

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

Fergie

Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.

Chris Hardwick

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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

George Will

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

Jeff Pinkner

The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.

Gale Harold

My interests are not really with television, per se.

I don't think if we're on television 20 times, we're going to automatically be in the tournament.

J. J. Abrams

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

J. G. Ballard

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Isabelle Huppert

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Bill Condon

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Newton Minow

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

When you're live on television ?you've got to be very concise, very brief, and very direct,

Jesse Ventura

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

Jean Baudrillard

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

Bunker Roy

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

Jared Harris

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

Errol Morris

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

Christian Cooke

It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

Jillian Bach

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

Goodman Ace

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Giuliana Rancic

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Ian Mckellen

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Hugh Downs

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Gina Bellman

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

Giancarlo Esposito

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

Jessica Savitch

Television is intensely personal.

Gilda Radner

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Gillian Anderson

When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.