Television Quotes (1545 Quotes)


    There's no question that we're facing in television the most competitive primetime season in recent memory, ... You have to look at how the World Series has held up versus a very strong primetime lineup across the board on any given night.

    There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.


    During the past several years, the television business is being transformed by technology as digital media and broadband distribution make possible the reception of moving images other than (in) the wired box in your living room. Video games allow people to talk to one another. It's an extension of old-fashioned storytelling.



    There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.



    Anderson is one of the most distinctive voices anywhere on television. He has broken through the clutter with his candor, his humanity and his emotional connection to the most pressing stories of our time. As a result, he has gained a strong following among viewers that we hope to build on.


    It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

    All the players really owed it to everybody concerned with organizing the game and all the people who turned up and the people who were watching on television all around the world to make sure it was really a competitive, good game of cricket.




    Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.


    Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.





    It gets so frustrating, week after week, year after year. I don't know what people have not noticed or don't know about the University of Utah. I think they have, with the exception of a two-point conversion, won every game they've played and competed at a very high level and been on national television. Maybe people went to bed, I don't know.


    You gear yourself up to produce great content for the medium you're serving. We've been serving the primary medium of television for many years, and so our systems and creative people are very focused on that notion. The way we got our digital media businesses off the ground was extending our TV shows and franchises, but now we're starting to see that each medium has its own dynamic and its own rhythms. What works on MTV may not work on Overdrive, and vice versa. So we wanted to creative groups of people who are obsessed about serving new platforms as we have been in the traditional TV area.

    This is more than a bump in the road. I think more and more, TV and video entertainment is moving to an on-demand format, be it Comcast or the Internet. People will download their shows and watch them on their portable device or their television.

    I don't know if you've noticed. You all have been very busy. But there's a lot of attention on Florida over the last couple of weeks, ... But I want to tell you that the best of Florida is right here, not what is being depicted on television, but what just happened right now.


    Nick's track record and experience television, digital, international make him the right leader to fully integrate AP's technical operations globally and for all media, including video.

    There are so many shows I could name that are incredible and worthy for children to sit and watch, ... There's an on-off button on the television set and people (have) got to use it.


    That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country. Since I don't watch television very much, when I do check in, I'm horrified. But I don't think it took a massacre in a high school in America for me to see that there's too much violence or that children aren't being taught to use their own judgment when they watch television.

    By far, possibly the largest opportunity that presents itself to the Caribbean is the television audience rated somewhere between two and three billion persons. That platform presents a tremendous opportunity for our countries of the region and in particular Jamaica, to position itself to take advantage of how it can actually project and market itself while this event is here in Jamaica.


    Alcohol companies and advertisers cannot be called responsible when they allow themselves to advertise alcohol on television from 8.30pm, when over 25 per cent of 10-17-year-olds are watching.

    This is not good and it is not good for the party's image. The stand, which the BJP has taken on the issue of lawmakers who were caught taking money on television for asking questions, is not right. It will dent the party's image.

    The more devices people have, the more experiences they want, and the more occasions they have to become an audience. In our company, despite the fact our audience is going online, our ratings are (the) highest ever. Our series ' Laguna Beach ' is available to consumers online or with their cell phone. The television is not the center of the universe it is one piece of a hub.

    Building her company from scratch, Stewart had long felt a need to be perfect on some level as a role model for all these hundreds of people she was bringing along, ... she recognized that there was a big team of people here who had learned from her, who were very, very good at their jobs and would allow her now to be a freer person on television.



    Our nation has become so morally liberal. Shows on television push the boundaries of sexuality. Family time is really now TV time. In the average home, the television is turned on 40 to 60 hours per week. More than 95 percent of all sexual intercourse scenes on soap operas are among non-married people.

    A lot of people are interested in the incident, as am I. I did not see it on the field. And, until 25 minutes ago, I had not seen it myself. It does not show up on the coaches' copy. All it does is show up on the television copy.


    I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

    When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.


    I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

    I thought, in the interest of not wasting a lot of television footage, I should say at the very outset, I am in favor of a strong dollar, ... I can't imagine why anyone would think to the contrary.

    So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.

    The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.



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