All Quotes

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
‐‐ K. D. Lang

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

Television's not going read stories to you.
‐‐ Kurt Loder

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
‐‐ Lydia Leonard

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

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
‐‐ Matt Drudge

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
‐‐ Eric Kripke

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
‐‐ B. D. Wong

Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.
‐‐ Craig Bierko

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
‐‐ David Byrne

Television speeded everything up.
‐‐ Ruth Handler

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.
‐‐ Alfre Woodard

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
‐‐ C. P. Scott

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.
‐‐ Maury Povich

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
‐‐ Alan Ball

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.
‐‐ Max Martini

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
‐‐ Fred W. Friendly

Television wasn't prestigious.
‐‐ Dorothy Malone

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
‐‐ Darryl F. Zanuck

Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

Tell all the ladies to follow me on Snapchat. I don't want to see no guys snapping me.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!
‐‐ Tom Savini

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
‐‐ Jack Dempsey

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

Tell it like it is.
‐‐ Peter Pace

'Tell me about yourself.' When interviewers ask this, they don't want to hear about everything that has happened in your life; the interviewer's objective is to see how you respond to this vague yet personal question.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
‐‐ Peter Arno

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
‐‐ John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
‐‐ Ed Sullivan

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
‐‐ Carl Orff

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny, and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.
‐‐ Julie Newmar

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
‐‐ Shel Silverstein

Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber... is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.
‐‐ Kid Rock

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.
‐‐ Anushka Sharma

Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
‐‐ John DiMaggio

Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
‐‐ Cleo Moore