Television Quotes

I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

I loved 'Lost,' from beginning to end.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility.

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

I'm a huge fan of Laurie Metcalf and Niecy Nash.

My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

It's real great to be known on TV. I had the opportunity to do something that I always wanted to do, and now I have done it.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning( Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That's kind of embarrassing when you think about it.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.