Quotes About Television

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.

When you get that email that says: FX show, political-oriented, starring Cate Blanchett, you're more inclined to take a quick read than you might otherwise.

I'd like for 'Facts of Life' to include more stories about Mrs. Garrett. But I wouldn't want to do a spin-off built around her.

I can say the people you see on TV are real-life individuals, not just people playing a role, myself included.

I've been in the industry for 15 years, and I knew all the pieces that needed to be included to make a series. It wasn't just about writing characters, it wasn't just about writing a funny joke.

Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

Growing up, we loved 'The Royle Family'. Caroline Aherne, she was just incredible.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones' is amazing, really incredible.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Other shows have been aping 'Indian Idol.'

The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it has made even the most dubious "values" and behaviors seem normal and routine.

No Evangelical whose reading habits are a disgrace to the seriousness of the Christian ministry, or who spends more time before a television set than he does in serious reading in his study has the right to damn Nietzsche from the pulpit to some gruesome place in the Inferno.

Si elle ne s'était pas évadée de leur monde, elle serait amorphe et fainéante comme un Doigt. Car, elle l'avait vu à la télévision, les Doigts sont toujours partisans du moindre effort. [...] Comme le dit bien un adage myrmécéen : la fonction fait l'organe, mais l'absence de fonction défait l'organe.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live, I didn't know what Facebook was. And now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time!

People ask where my political views and visions come from. That started practically when I was old enough to walk. We didn't get a TV for a while, but when we did, there was Oswald getting shot, live on TV in the living room. There was the Berlin wall going up, the bloody Vietnam war, Watergate, the race riots started by the police. Network news wasn't so censored then. You would see how badly wounded people where when they took them off the chopper. News wasn't all sanitized like it is today.