Quotes About Television

Despite everything, I felt my lips twitch. If he weren't a homicidal god-wannabe, and I didn't have a murderous red witch inside me, we might've been friends. When his laughter died down, he said, "Back in the day, we would've made a great reality TV show. The Sol and Empress Show." "The

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to what's coming next. That's how it works in real life too.

buying more stuff will make us happy, because we saw the capitalist paradise with our own eyes on television.

That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention ' it would be funny.

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.

And obviously everybody has a different sense of what's funny. If you need confirmation of that, I would remind you that "Saved By the Bell" recently celebrated the taping of their one-hundredth episode.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.