It’s about the only event, when I see it come on television, I actually stop and watch a little bit.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here’s wishing you pleasant dreams. Sleep tight. From all of us to all of you, a warm good...

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don’t watch television.

Confession: I don’t want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not...

The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader...

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don’t want to do another television show. I don’t want to do a film.

We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

The 1990 ‘Goodwill Games’ can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts… they will have a higher opinion of cable...

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver’s Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda” by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which...

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I’m not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it’s a little bit more disjointed.

People want to be told what to do so badly that they’ll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

I actually haven’t been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you’re really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction’s seriousness by dating it out of the...

‘The Young and the Restless’ is my favorite television show.

Watch a man–say, a politician–being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to...

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all...

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and...

I don’t think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

This attack is clearly visible all over the world on television. Consequently, world equity markets are in turmoil. The uncertainty created by the attacks are likely to bring about more uncertainty abroad.

…pwede nga ring yung TV ang may sumpa. dahil ang TV, para ring drugs, pero ligal. isipin mo, bakit isa ito sa mga unang-unang ipinupundar ng mga Pilipino kahit gaano sila kahirap? kasi malaking tulong...

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they’ve gone.

I’ve been a live performer longer than I’ve been a television performer. For me, live is where it’s at.

First time on television, we won. It was a special moment for us.

It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television’s exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens...

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you’ve got to take advantage of.

You know how mainstream news is interspersed with product ads? Well, why aren’t all the shows made entirely out of the stuff? I find commercials more believable, and I’d be more inclined to watch.

The problem with not being able to receive an over the air signal is that everyone who has a television set that uses an antenna, as opposed to using cable or satellite, may never see...

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become ‘A Grand Day Out.’

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make...

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about...

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

You fight for certain roles, and you realise they’re being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.

Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors.””I don’t want that. I want to work in TV.””Trust me, Laura. You’d be happier if you were an accountant.

Television wasn’t getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle…Just like the...

Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I’m a television junkie.

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands...

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work,...

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.