Sarita Choudhury Quotes

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

Television has supplanted people as the only audience that campaigners are interested in.

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by my parents.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people.

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

Trump was a Fox News viewer before he was a Fox News star. He learned a lot about the Republican party's base by watching the network and calling into the morning show 'Fox & Friends' while still starring on NBC's 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself but I realized you have to show people a little bit of yourself and interact with them, especially before your film releases.

Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

It's very important for me to try to get to the people. I'm not shy. It's nice to give the fans a little extra, to let them inside.

Anybody that wants to take a picture with me I'm more than happy - I'm excited about it. I'm building that personal connection with the fans and keeping it.

I just don't like reality TV.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.