Quotes About Television

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

Babe and I are both great television fans, and we've been planning to do something on TV. But we certainly never intended to start out on an unrehearsed network show!

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?

I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

I don't have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Too much TV hurts movies.

I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.