Television Quotes

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

~ Gore Vidal

Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

~ Jason Bateman

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

~ Kenneth Branagh

The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.

~ Alan Alda

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

~ Kyle Maclachlan

I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.

~ Mark Sheppard

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

~ Romulus Whitaker

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

~ Tom Clancy

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

~ Ben Carson

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

~ Annette Funicello

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

~ Bill Moyers

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

~ Steve Wynn

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

~ Kevin Spacey

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

~ Bille August

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

~ Daniel Woodrell

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

~ Trishelle Cannatella

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

~ Kim Cattrall

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

~ Michelle Obama

Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

~ G. W. Bailey

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

~ Parker Posey

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

~ Arthur Penn

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

~ Orson Welles

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

~ Charles Grodin

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

~ Alan Dershowitz

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

~ James Spader

Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

~ Michael Moore

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

~ Steven Spielberg

With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

~ Adam Driver

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

~ Chelsea Clinton

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

~ Theresa Rebeck

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

~ Eartha Kitt

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

~ James Patterson

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

~ Samuel Goldwyn

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

~ Mark Frost

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

~ Ken Thompson

If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

~ Brian Dennehy

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

~ Jerrold Nadler

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

~ Bud Abbott