Quotes About Television

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

I watch ESPN all day long.

Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.

I don't watch ESPN.

I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.

TV gives people a chance to establish as an actor.

If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.

I love euro TV drama, there's some fantastic shows.

When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.

In television, what you have shot in the morning, may go on air that very day in the evening; but films give you a lot of time to work on your character.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied "The revolution is not being televised" in paint pen. It was a "pointless" action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this. It was an act of love for that "hooligan" Arundhati Roy. It was an act of self-love. I don't expect it to change the world, but on the other hand, I know it will.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

By analogy, the "Records" reside in what we today might call, in computer lingo, a "zipped file" – which may be opened up and reanimated by "mystics," like a celestial television set.

I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the people to follow the Hitler. And don't you think he'd find them? No, not enough of them. I really think people are better and smarter now, not so much thinking their leaders are God. The television makes a big difference.

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

When we stand before Christ and He evaluates our ministries, He will not be asking us how many people sat in the pews, watched our TV programs, gave in our telethons or filled out response cards. He is not going to evaluate us based on how many people fell under the power of God or how many healings we counted in each service. He will ask how many faithful disciples we made. I pray we make this our priority.

the television news paused for a commercial--Coming up next: Are we all going to die Tomorrow?

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I've been keeping an eye out for the Charlie Brown Valentine's Day special. I know it will be on soon, and I never miss a Charlie Brown special. The best one is the Halloween show about the Great Pumpkin - which I've only missed one year in my life, due to the local ABC station having technical difficulties - but all the Peanuts shows make me feel like I'm one step closer to Halloween.