Television Quotes - Page 33

• If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on
  television with pool cues, who would win?
  1) Ricky Schroder
  2) Gary Coleman
  3) The television viewing public

  David Letterman

  Fighting, Winning, Pool

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• Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Baby, Children, Motherhood

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Running, Ideas

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

  Joe Bradley

  Fun, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

  Joe Bradley

  Eye, Bars, Rooms

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.

  William Shatner

  New York, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Stars, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Talking, Miracle

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Nick Offerman

  Action, Honest, Whole

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Thinking, Perception

  "Lucy Liu’s Independent Woman". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.

  Charlie Day

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

  Alain Resnais

  Firsts, Film, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

  Anjelica Huston

  Book, Watches, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

  Ingrid Law

  Kids, Adults, Watches

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.86, Penguin

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• Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

  Ann Sothern

  Watches, Actresses, April

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• Sesame Street is the epitome of children’s television. It has continued to maintain the successful structure that was established in the beginning. Through it’s amazing research department, teaching has been made fun. This, the heart and humor works for children and adults alike, that’s why I’m very honored to be a part of it.

  Kevin Clash

  Fun, Children, Teaching

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Evil People

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• Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

  Lauren Zalaznick

  Value Systems, Values, Conscience

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• Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.141, Odyssey Editions

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• Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

  Billy Graham

  Technology, Thinking, World

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Unions, Hyper

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Stuff, Offensive

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

  Andy Warhol

  People, One Day, President

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Careers, Actors, Goes On

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, Independent, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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