Quotes About Television

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

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.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

The cameras in the Simpson courtroom not only encouraged lawyers to preen for the lens and prolong the life of every goddamned motion to increase their time on the air, it reduced a criminal trial to the status of a sporting event.

this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity. Those tribesmen treasure, above all things, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on Bonanza, and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. before there was a Girl from U.N.C.L.E., not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories on The Mickey Mouse Club.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.