Quotes About Television

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

I try to keep it as honest and real as I can with television crews following me around.

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

It's not saving the world or anything but I still get such a rush from live television.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.

It is a golden age of television, with Amazon, Sky, and Netflix. They give opportunities to people to develop their own projects together. So much stuff has to be made. There has to be more opportunity.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.