Quotes About Television

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.