Quotes About Television

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.