The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?
Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.