Television Quotes - page 4

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. (Christiane Amanpour)
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. View quote
Clive Barnes
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. View quote
David Ginola
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. View quote
David Hyde Pierce
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. View quote
Deborah Bull
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. View quote
Dick York
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! View quote
Dirk Benedict
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. View quote
Leonard Maltin
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing. (Parminder Nagra)
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. View quote
Richard O'Brien
I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording. View quote
Richard O'Brien
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. View quote
Robert McChesney
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. View quote
Robert Teeter
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. View quote
Roone Arledge
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. View quote
Tommy Shaw
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. View quote
Vincent Canby
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. View quote
Will McDonough
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. View quote
Thabo Mbeki
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem. (Kiefer Sutherland)
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. View quote
Steve Buscemi
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. View quote
Howard Zinn
Television leaves no external scars. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service. View quote
Fred Rogers