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I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

Judy Collins

Success

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.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Jay Chiat

Time

Television

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.