Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noel Coward

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Gallagher

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Noah Emmerich

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

Theodore White

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

Tessa Jowell

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty,

Melissa Rosenberg

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Laurence Fishburne

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

Patti LuPone

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

John Green

Television is a passivity.

Pat Sajak

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

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogilvy

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

David Mamet

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

Condola Rashad

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

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

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.

Clint Walker

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

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.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

Fran Lebowitz

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Fran Lebowitz

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

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.

Judith Crist

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

Steven Moffat

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

Steven Cojocaru

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

Red Skelton

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.