Frank Deford
Related CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television. MIKE ROGERS Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. DENNIS POTTER It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors,... SAMIRA WILEY Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN JASON BATEMAN VAL KILMER I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool. TIM HOWARD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#... CALVIN KLEIN LEE SIEGEL BERNARD CORNWELL 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' I did an episode on, and that's one of my favori... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO BILL KURTIS I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great! CAMREN BICONDOVA In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time... BENEDICT WONG Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many chan... DANA DELANY In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the ... JON BATISTE The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite. JOEL HODGSON BENNY FINE WALTER F. MONDALE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or vo... R. J. CUTLER TED SARANDOS LARRY GELBART JOHN KRASINSKI Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know t... AUSTIN BUTLER ALEX TURNER There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's me... ALAN TAYLOR When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like... JEFFREY KLARIK Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice ... SARAH PAULSON A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so ... STAN FREBERG I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thi... MACKENZIE DAVIS One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to ... CARLTON CUSE It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show. AARON TVEIT 'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wond... HOWARD JACOBSON Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. GRAHAM NORTON I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent ope... LOWELL BERGMAN 'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. DAVID SHUSTER If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television h... PENELOPE ANN MILLER BENNY FINE MIRANDA HART GENE SIMMONS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our... FINN JONES I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th... YUNJIN KIM I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,... KATE JACKSON DAVID L. WOLPER I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of televisio... JAMES RODAY RON HOWARD That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television ... VINCE MCMAHON Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smar... JAKE WEBER It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be ... MARTHA PLIMPTON You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television. MARK RUSSELL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES ROBERT STACK EDWARD ZWICK CHRIS PINE Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. ERNIE KOVACS My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show th... LENNIE JAMES Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of p... EVAN PETERS BRENDA LAUREL The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytel... ERIC CLOSE It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love. BRODY JENNER Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television. JOHNNY OLSON MARLON BRANDO You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to ... STEVE WYNN 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's s... BURNIE BURNS DYLAN MCDERMOTT KAREN BLACK BILL NYE GEORGE CLOONEY The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television. PATTI LUPONE People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a... DAVID CHASE JIMMY FALLON EVA LONGORIA RUSH LIMBAUGH ALAN ALDA VICTOR WEBSTER 'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' ... SYLVESTER MCCOY DYLAN MCDERMOTT LAUREN GRAHAM CARRIE BROWNSTEIN ETHAN COEN BILL PAXTON There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and ... BEN BASS 'Stargate SG-1' is one of Sci Fi's sure-fire hits. It's got one of the best ensemble... BONNIE HAMMER I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public tele... ELINOR LIPMAN I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on te... EMMA CAULFIELD KEVIN BARRY RUPERT MURDOCH I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand... EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR. ALEX TABARROK STEVE JOBS TOM PETTY AMY JO MARTIN
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Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you'... 
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth... 
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television it... 
Television is a young person's medium. 
There's room for a diversity of ages on television. 
There's a new success model, and us and some of our peers are now starting to prove that TV and ... 
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to televisio... 
There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data tha... 
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. 
For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so i... 
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? 
'MyMusic' is a great showcase of what we can do as creators on a modest budget when we'r... 
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It'... 
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It... 
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a prod... 
There's something rare and wonderful that's very particular to television, and it's when... 
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it... 
I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is mor... 
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance... 
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end. 
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about... 
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad... 
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ... 
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of ... 
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating... 
I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memori... 
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. ... 
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are... 
The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is th... 
Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that... 
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common den... 
I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think f... 
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifestin... 
It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show... 
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although g... 
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in America... 
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television.... 
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost ... 
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are do... 
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. I... 
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is mor... 
Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Ba... 
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ... 
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in br... 
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. 
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to... 
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I... 
The best revenge is massive success. 
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 
What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. 
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo... 
There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure. 
I live in a crazy time. 
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe... 
Don't follow trends, start trends. 
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. 
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. 
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. 
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t... 
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen... 
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph... 
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. 
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. 
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ... 
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. 
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation an... 
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b... 
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. 
the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods. 
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ... 
I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it an... 
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the g... 
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