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I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

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.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

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.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.