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Quotes About Television

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
~ Bryant Gumbel
People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
~ Roy Hattersley
I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.
~ Lisa Snowdon
I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that's it.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
~ Mo Rocca
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
~ Michael Emerson
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
~ Patricia Richardson
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
~ Dana Delany
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
~ Debra Messing
I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
~ Stevie Wonder
My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.
~ Johnny Cash
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
~ Molly Ringwald
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
~ Paula Poundstone
I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
~ Sasha Alexander
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
~ Matt Drudge
Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
~ Bob Iger
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
~ Susan Lucci
Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.
~ Geena Davis
You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.
~ Jason Winer
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!
~ Lewis Black
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
~ Alex North
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
~ Faith Hill