Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
Did peopleβs attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career Iβve had some flak - particularly doing television.
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Getting into television was a total fluke.
Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network.
Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
Unfortunately, my dancing skills never came to the fore, as I got involved in acting on television, where an actor doesn't get too many opportunities to dance.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.
Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.
Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.
