Quotes About Television

I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.