Ernie Kovacs famous quotes

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs

#Done #Television #Mediums

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
-- Ernie Kovacs

#Succeed #Entertainment #Beats

Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.
-- Ernie Kovacs

#Tombstone #Moderation

Beat it to death if it succeeds.
-- Ernie Kovacs

#Succeed #Beats

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs

#Inspirational #Funny #Humor

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

Isn't television glamourous?

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.