David Jason Quotes

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

There's not a lot of good TV.

More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.

I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.

The working standards on television in our country are really bad. The sad part is that many actors take this deal because it gets them money and recognition.

Well, I'm old enough to remember Carol Burnett, and I would love a variety show type of thing.

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to.

Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.