Quotes About Television

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

Unless cameras were rolling, I was pretty much not Danny Tanner.

Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there's not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.

You'd think they could spit out shows better than 'Champs' and 'High Incident' with the pool of talent involved, unless they're just throwing money at people to create shows and they're not really behind them. I mean, the best thing they can do is 'Champs,' a half-hour comedy about men being stupid? People can just look around and see that.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.