There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I'm a huge fan of television, and the reason I'm a part of the world is because I'm a fan of it.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

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