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I’m not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I’m not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It’s like a club. We are not asking the tough questions. (Television Quotes)
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from ‘The Sopranos’ on, whether it’s ‘The Wire’ or ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘House of Cards,’ they’re fantastic pieces of art. (Television Quotes)
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. (Television Quotes)
My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though. (Television Quotes)
I didn’t watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I’d like every movie I saw. (Television Quotes)
Heroes’, ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘The Sopranos’ - they’re all very stylised. ‘The Wire’ is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can’t think of anything I’d rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do. (Television Quotes)
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object (Television Quotes)
I’ve been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I’ve been thinking about playing here. (Television Quotes)
Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world. (Television Quotes)
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people. (Television Quotes)
It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television. (Television Quotes)
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite. (Television Quotes)
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life. (Television Quotes)
The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space. (Television Quotes)
I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write (Television Quotes)
I’ve been on the wrong end of violence, and I’ve done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles. (Television Quotes)
In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep. (Television Quotes)
When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, ‘Don’t say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone’s going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.’ (Television Quotes)
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television. (Television Quotes)
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can’t completely satisfy that yearning. (Television Quotes)
Look at every show on television; it’s derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you ‘Mentalist’ fans, it’s okay to like the show, but don’t be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby. (Television Quotes)
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it’s exciting. The doors are kind of open. (Television Quotes)
Unless you’re a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies. (Television Quotes)
A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible. (Television Quotes)
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. (Television Quotes)
Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn’t be as good for anyone. (Television Quotes)
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development. (Television Quotes)
Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass. (Television Quotes)
The one thing about program television that’s absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors. (Television Quotes)
The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form (Television Quotes)