Television Quotes · Page 64

“People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone. [Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]”

— Anonymous

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies,…

— Ranjeet

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside…

— Neil Gaiman

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different…

— Tom Shales

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I…

— Woody Allen

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We…

— John Gimlette

Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or…

— Seth

Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to…

— Michio Kaku

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just…

— Jack Kerouac

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having…

— Bill Cosby

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

— Robin Leach

On television, I have always been paid a better sum than the main leads to play a babuji.

— Alok Nath

[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control…

— Elizabeth Crook

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for…

— Meg Tilly

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

— John Ridley

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

— Steve Schirripa

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

— Nick Cannon

The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in…

— Nico Santos

Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk…

— Jack Nicklaus

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

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in…

— Matt Groening

I just always had a love for television and movies.

— Bruce Boxleitner

We were really fortunate that what we were doing happened to work on television.

— Ron Mael

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working…

— Kate Mulgrew

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was…

— Robert Bork

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

When I was on KNX I did a lot of television and motion pictures and as you know I did the 'Donna…

— Bob Crane

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

At age 15, I sold a television series to NBC.

— Josie Totah

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background,…

— Jessica Valenti

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

— Geraldo Rivera

I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people…

— Colin Callender

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is…

— Stacy Keach

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there…

— Kim Cattrall

Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV.

— Rush Limbaugh

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

— Danielle Fishel

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality…

— Erin Gray

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more…

— David Hyde Pierce

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because…

— Jenna Elfman

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

— Michael J. Gelb