TV Impact Quotes

Nothing I do will ever compare with 'Breaking Bad.'

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

TV has changed everything.

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.

TV is the rat race of the century.

I owe my career to 'Duke.'

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

'The Apprentice' has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal - barely normal - individuals, and it's like, 'Wait a second. He's a regular guy!'