Quotes About Television

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it's important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

I'm absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

I like American late-night shows, like Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Bill Maher - I've got them all on series link.

I watch everything with Olivia Colman in.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

I have not been following religiously; the only season I followed on and off is 'Bigg Boss 11.'

I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.

People have been affected by the concept of one minute fame.' This is actually a problem with television. The whole world is getting crazy about coming on television for some reason or the other.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.