Television Quotes · Page 91

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

— Dani Shapiro

National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of…

— Michael Moriarty

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

— Christopher Guest

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How…

— Tom Clancy

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

— Theodore White

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…

— Kenneth Koch

I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am…

— Julie White

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does…

— Brian K. Vaughan

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the…

— Prabal Gurung

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

— Rupert Murdoch

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national…

— Rob Kardashian

The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an…

— Kay Kay Menon

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird...…

— Diablo Cody

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV,…

— Jason Bateman

Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.

— Brian J. Smith

You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.

— David Eigenberg

Every television show is hard to do, but when you're in genre and you're recreating worlds and mythologies, they're particularly hard.

— Kevin Reilly

Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there.…

— Chuck Klosterman

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio,…

— Gary Johnson

Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals,…

— Arundhati Roy

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces,…

— Zainab Salbi

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

— E B White

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a…

— Katrina Kaif

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are…

— Dev Patel

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a…

— Rachael Taylor

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what…

— Marie Winn

In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now…

— Gary Lineker

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director…

— Rod Serling

I took journalism classes and television production classes, always volunteering to appear on camera.

— Ryan Clark

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

— Rob Reiner

I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television…

— Bill Cosby

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

— Condola Rashad

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

— Marina Abramovic

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

— John Eldredge

“I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.”

— M.E. Thomas