Once you put something like ‘The A-Team’ on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people’s shows when I was creating my shows. – Stephen J. Cannell
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, ‘Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.’ You don’t get to do that on television. – Sarah Paulson
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You’re not distracted by somebody’s nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. – Terry Gross
I worked in television; I’m the Failed Pilot Queen, I’ve done so many television shows, pilots, theater … when you do it for so long, I’m telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what’s available for a number of reasons. It’s just an occupational hazard. – Viola Davis
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on. – Victoria Wood
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. – Tori Amos
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. – William Westmoreland
When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season. – Stark Sands
‘Doctor Who’ is not as literary as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ is – books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference… it’s more scholastic. – Sylvester McCoy
I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work – getting to do the work. And I don’t really care where it is: whether it’s on stage or on television or in film. – Sally Field
Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don’t know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don’t know any. – Scott Derrickson
It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don’t they call somebody in their area? Don’t they know about that? – Trisha Goddard
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. – Tom Shales
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper
It’s a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird. – Val Kilmer
With correction, and given the chance, ‘Terra Nova’ can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew ‘Terra Nova’ is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. ‘Terra Nova’ is the Hubble Telescope of television. – Stephen Lang
In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera. – Saul Rubinek
On ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry – girls that have not been on ‘Top Model,’ but who appear in ‘Vogue’ worldwide. – Tyra Banks
By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television. – Silvio Scaglia
I didn’t dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television. – Tim Daly
I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it’s a fascinating medium. – Will McDonough
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television – always separately – has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. – Tom Shales
I don’t know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television. – Terry Teachout
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there’s more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger. – Steven Johnson
I’d love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven’t done it in a while. – Steve Carell
When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn’t there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster? – Sayed Kashua