I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television’s most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

I like the rapid stage of TV. I’m the type of actor who likes the fast pace. I don’t have the patience to wait for 50 million takes.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

I don’t think there is anybody who’s watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, ‘He is really the same person I saw on television.

Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, ‘Is the gaze male?’ The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That’s the relationship between the three.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don’t get played on the radio much, so I’ve relied on TV a lot.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‘solution’ to society’s ‘problem

I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that’s usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: “That was brilliant!”

But TV has changed completely. It’s not until you come into people’s homes that everyone says, ‘You’re a success now.

For me, I think there’s a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they’re all very mainstream, and they’re a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.

Being on TV sucks. It’s a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything.

TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

Big time, I’m always ready for TV. I don’t have to edit my jokes — when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that’s the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn’t really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it

Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it’s fast, and that I like a lot.

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.

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Is there a grandmother that isn’t spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

This Interaction Will Go Down In History As One Of The Sassiest Moments On Television.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

Television is the third parent.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I’d say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

There’s a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don’t involve show business. I’m going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television. I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

The biggest change in the government’s behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community, that’s the biggest change. But without TV, the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

I never say never, but I haven’t been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

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

After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.