Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Edwards

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Anne Sweeney

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Anna Deavere Smith

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Anson Mount

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Anthea Turner

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

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

Atom Egoyan

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

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!

Dave Navarro

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Chris Elliott

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

Dick Wolf

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.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Dennis Prager

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

Debra Wilson

I got an early education from television.

Brian Eno

American television really is pathetic.

Bill Condon

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

Oprah Winfrey

It's just a television show. But, wouldn't this be cool?

Conan O'Brien

MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.

Conan O'Brien

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

David Caruso

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Daniel Tosh

I can say that. I have a television show.

Daniel Tosh

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

Daniel Tosh

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.

David Letterman

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

David Boreanaz

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

Caroline Rhea

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

Mike Rogers

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

Kurt Loder

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

Nick Offerman

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.