Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Irving

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

John Hodgman

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

John Hodgman

My fame is due to broadcast television.

Josephine Hart

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Joy Bryant

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

Julianna Margulies

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Julianna Margulies

What a wonderful time for women on television.

Karl Albrecht

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Justin Kirk

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

Josh Schwartz

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

Kyle Chandler

Television, cable, features are always out there.

Linda Ellerbee

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

Gary Cole

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Graydon Carter

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Greg Behrendt

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

John Larroquette

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

Jim Parrack

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

Joanna Kerns

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

George Lucas

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Elvis Presley

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Suze Orman

I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.

Robin Day

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Robert Redford

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Robbie Amell

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

Thomas Sowell

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Steve Kanaly

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Samantha Bond

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

Ruth Handler

Television speeded everything up.

Tony Hale

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

Vanilla Ice

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Stephen Lang

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.