In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
Alvin Adams

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Pamela Anderson

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Sophia Loren

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
Samantha Bee

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Van Morrison

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
Francis Ford Coppola

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
Francis Ford Coppola

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Augusten Burroughs

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Tony Campolo

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
Chevy Chase

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
Peter Sellers

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
Michael Palin

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Art Buchwald

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
Elayne Boosler

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
Tom Petty

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
David Brenner

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Seth MacFarlane