#television

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#because #die #i #known #largest

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#bruce #doing #film #funny #guy

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #crime #earns #effect #films

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#decline #gives #occasionally #people #steep

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#eye #like #paint #spray #taking

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#express #how #important #impossible #know

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#heads #modern #revolutionary #station #television

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cable-television #cable-television-in-the-us #conservatism #conservatism-in-the-us #gore-vidal

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

— Craig Ferguson

#important #just #medicine #really #sake

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it. ↗

— Joan Collins

#because #care #films #get #i