When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating...

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

I love the stage. It’s terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you’re about to go out, and you’re adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real.And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want...

5 ways to cleanse your mind right away:•Switch off the junk box(Yes I mean Television).•Stop reading the leftover (Yes I mean Newspaper).•Stop cursing & blaming.•Walk in nature with a pet.•Come home (AND *MEDITATE*).~ UNIVERSE LOVES...

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you’re trying to get jobs on TV; but you’re also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I’d love to be on Broadway.

I’ll always be grateful for what ‘Doctor Who’ has given me. I go to quite a few fan conventions. It’s lovely to hang out with people you worked with so long ago. And, more than...

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Now, if that’s how she reacted to the arrival of a new television set and having to learn how to use a new remote control, how is she possibly going to cope with digital switchover?...

Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo convierte en el ictu oculi, en un regreso al puro y simple acto de ver. La televisión produce...

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

Anderson is a one-of-a-kind television journalist who deserves all the acclaim that he is getting.

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

I watch way too much television and like a lot of shows, so I’m always excited to meet those people and hope they’re not douchey.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on...

If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.

The television is ‘real’. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily...

I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.

Because our audience is experiencing content in so many places these days, it’s important not just to be a television company. One hopes the brand is powerful enough that your content is recognizable everywhere.

I’m not a Christian, but I have read his book.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it’s the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television...

Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week?

I always loved television. I always loved movies.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don’t care.

I saw a guy, when I watched on television, who really liked the arena he was in. He had a face on him that said, ‘I accept this challenge here.’ You like that.

Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it’s the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset?...

To speak of television as ‘neutral’ and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

Anyway,” continued Mr. Miller, “when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People...

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it’s important to understand how the medium works – how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

I pitched my last children’s show presentation in the mid 1980’s. The era of locally produced children’s shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children’s television.

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

It’s important to bring theatrical stuff back to television,

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their...

It’s a Herculean feat. The thing about Jimmy is, as most classic television commentators, he is a producer first.

Watching TV becomes a full-time job when you can scan 200 channels all day and all night and still have the option of punching Night Dreams into the video machine, if the rest of the...

freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?

I think someone should invent an edible remote control, to go along with TV dinners.

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes...

My hotel room has a great view. The view is right in front of the TV.

The television industry is reinventing itself, the same way the telephone industry is reinventing itself and they are all blending,

We have a crackerjack bill here, … It will stop millionaires from buying Senate seats and the presidency. It brings this television monster under control.

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for...