Quotes About Television

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.

'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

I do not create events for the sake of television.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.