Television Quotes - page 9

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. (Richard Donner)

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

Robert Carlyle

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Robert Wagner

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

Sandra Brown

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

Stephen Chbosky

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

Stephen Chbosky

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Sue Townsend

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

Suzanne Somers

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

William Boyd

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money. (Fran Drescher)

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

So, you're like Angel? (Amanda) You watch way too much television. Angel has a soul. I don't. (Kyrian) Now you're back to being scary again. (Amanda) Baby, you ain't seen scary yet. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Shonda Rhimes

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Eartha Kitt

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Beverly Cleary

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

Galina Vishnevskaya

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.

Gretchen Rubin

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

Graham Joyce

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

Graham Norton

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly. (Graham Norton)

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

David Duchovny

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

David Ogden Stiers

When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.

David Perlmutter

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

James Van Praagh

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