Television Quotes - Page 38

• There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Theater, Critics, Movie Critic

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

  Shelley Long

  Essence, Play, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

  CM Punk

  Wrestling, Firsts, Culture

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

  CM Punk

  Ideas, People, T Shirt

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.

  Shane Dawson

  Quitting, Youtube, Viewers

  Source: uwire.com

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• The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

  Hilary Swank

  Moving, Play, Let It Go

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

  Frank Whaley

  Thinking, Able, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Facts

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• my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Hate, Ideas

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• The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

  Louise Bernikow

  Loneliness, Average, Waiting

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Businessman, Mediums

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

  Pauline Kael

  Watches, Tvs, Used

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Pieces, Furniture

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

  Pauline Kael

  Tvs, Program, Made

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

  Hedda Hopper

  Creativity, Sixty Minutes, Half

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• [On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

  Laurie Colwin

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

  Helene Hanff

  Writing, Kind, Conviction

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• The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Education, Children, Home

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

  Dora Russell

  Car, Principles, Needs

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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• You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Thinking, People

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