Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Resnais

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

Charley Pride

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

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Say they're under two years old, there's a television in their room, and they never watch that television -- they still tend to be overweight.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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

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

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.

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.

Diane Abbott

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Demi Lovato

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

Dana Carvey

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

Damon Lindelof

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

Brian Eno

American television really is pathetic.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Dick Van Dyke

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Dirk Benedict

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Doris Lessing

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Criss Angel

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Dan Harmon

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

E. B. White

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Adam Savage

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

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.

Andy Cohen

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

Dorothy Malone

Television wasn't prestigious.

Donna Leon

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.