Quotes About Television

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

I'm a huge E! fan. Every hotel room, I watch it all the time. 'E! News' is fantastic.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

the master bedroom with the cherry chest at the foot of the bed that holds the television, which rises up out of the chest at the touch of a bedside button.

If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

Then he returned to his room and switched on the evening news. The world was doing poorly;

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show.