I think in movies, in television, and in advice columns, often there’s this idea that what people are really attracted to is confidence. And I think people, especially young men, sometimes misinterpret that to mean being brash, or trying to be an alpha.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
I don’t watch television.
Television makes so much at its worst that it can’t afford to do its best.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‘Well, you know: It’s secret.’
Television, although It’s in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don’t have voices.
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.
For example, it’s only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn’t have come till 1970.
If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I’ve felt like this for years.
A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted ‘The Bake Off’ to be an antidote to that.
Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn’t exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can’t control.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
We were the laughingstock of that first season… It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
As a viewer of television if there’s something I don’t like or find offensive, I just don’t watch it.
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth – I just hate what is being done with it.
I never have my CNN off, it’s on the whole day. I don’t want to be out of range of television. I’m constantly bombarded by information – Somalia one second, Haiti the next – I need that constant pounding. I couldn’t write without television. I need to have the world in my room.
It started back in 2002, when there was hardly any reality television. ‘Survivor’ had just started. My hope and dream was that ‘The Bachelor’ would last one or two nights on network TV, so I might meet somebody in the network and then I could get a real job.
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.
I don’t think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It’s surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
I prefer radio to television. Radio is a dialogue; television is a monologue. In radio, you have to interact – they put the words in your head; you build the pictures in your mind. To that extent, it is more engaging than television.
Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you’re playing.
I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the ‘Edmonds’ cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.
So many people treat you like you’re a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
There are times that I see comments on Instagram and Twitter – if you are bashing my character on television, that is fine. I am totally cool with that. I’m a bad guy for a reason. You are supposed to hate me, but when you disrespect me or my work or myself as a character as me personally, that is not okay.
My parents would use all of their money for us to go new and exciting places, instead of a new television or a big car.
I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn’t get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that’s a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.
I don’t like modernity. I don’t have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can’t drive a car.
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.
Putting any show on television is a challenge. I’ve been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on ‘Smallville’ and ‘Lost’ and ‘Heroes.’ I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.
I love a bit of political drama; ‘The West Wing’ is probably my favourite television series of all time.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the ’50s and ’60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don’t want to continue doing the same things I’ve been doing in film because it’s very limited.
My first Top of the Pops I didn’t want to do. I was terrified. I’d never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
If you want to keep up with the changes, then you have to watch as much football as you can. Live is the best way but also on television. All the best teams: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and now City. What are they doing? If possible, go and see them training. You can always learn.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
They say that theater is the actor’s medium, television is the writer’s medium and film is the director’s medium, and it’s really true.
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
There are few shows on television as strong and iconic as ‘Millionaire.’
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
I doubt I’d ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.
I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn’t so much information about him. Today, you’re on television all the time.
