If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

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.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

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