Quotes About Television

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

I look at television as a giant commercial for promoting this mission that I'm on. It's the best way for me to show that girls can be anything they set their minds to. I don't do it for the fame, and I most certainly don't do it for the money. It's sad that a lot of people want to get into television specifically for that reason.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Instant attraction is natural, flirting can also happen. But building a relationship takes time. We can't control our emotions. If you feel for someone, it will definitely show on your face. But I definitely can't fake a love story on national television for the footage.

You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

'High Maintenance' became my calling card for the bulk of my television career.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.

People want to be represented on television.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'