All Quotes

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

Television has tremendous power over our lives.
‐‐ Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
‐‐ Jeff Daniels

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
‐‐ Fred Allen

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work.
‐‐ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
‐‐ Lee Loevinger

Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
‐‐ Liana Liberato

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.
‐‐ Eric Dane

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
‐‐ Fred Allen

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
‐‐ Roone Arledge

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
‐‐ David Chase

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

Television is a service, but it's also a business.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.
‐‐ Jodhi May

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.
‐‐ Mitchell Hurwitz

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

Television is a young person's medium.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Television is an important part of how we communicate.
‐‐ Roger Rees

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
‐‐ David Frost

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
‐‐ Peter Weller

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
‐‐ Barney Frank

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
‐‐ David Hockney

Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
‐‐ Brian Baumgartner

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is democracy at its ugliest.
‐‐ Paddy Chayefsky

Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan

Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.
‐‐ John Heard

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
‐‐ Bill James

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
‐‐ Gary Coleman

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
‐‐ Victor Webster

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Television is intensely personal.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
‐‐ Dean Devlin

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
‐‐ Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
‐‐ Alfred Hitchcock

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
‐‐ Alan Coren

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
‐‐ Dana Delany

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
‐‐ Christopher Knight