Quotes About Television

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

As disciplinary norms lost their effectiveness, television was crafted into a machinery of regulation, introducing previously unknown effects of subjection and supervision. This is why television is a crucial and adaptable part of a relatively long transition (or changing of the guard) lasting several decades, between a world of older disciplinary institutions and one of 24.7 control.

That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about politicians, bankers, show biz personalities as they appeared on screen. I wasn't being nosy, you understand. Just human.

Everything Richard Aufiero knew about lawyers he'd learned from television and the movies.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening." Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.

Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Por lo general, ver mucha televisión produce seres humanos robotizados, pasivos, acríticos y, lo que es más grave, sin inquietudes culturales.

Lo importante en los programas —radio o televisión— es divertir y asombrar; su objetivo debe ser ganar audiencia, por lo que el nivel cultural y de contenidos toca fondo, es nulo. No olvidemos la cantidad de personas que siguen estos programas.

Entre semana, fatigado por la jornada laboral, Luis Mario nunca estaba de humor para jugar con sus hijos. Entraba a casa con la mirada ausente, como un autómata esquivo, y a duras penas les dirigía la palabra, salvo en sus crudas dominicales, cuando necesitaba que alguien le cambiara los canales del televisor.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

The marvel of television is one means that is being used to try and turn society into a uniform mush. The manipulation and thought control inexorably continues. Mankind is being rinsed out into a group of dull moralists who convince themselves that they are "good people.

Adam almost never painted from life. His pictures were transcriptions. The text was harvested from popular culture, lifted from late-night television: phrases repeated aloud, over and over, until they had either shed or gained meaning. There was no judgement and little empathy.

You see kids, little boys, practicing the jeers of their television heroes--they shape themselves on such models. It's a strange conformity to what's thrust at them; they adopt it and adapt it and play with it.

I see a great many things now that I couldn't see when I was a young person. And I don't like everything that I see. For instance, I see people spending about fifty hours a week in front of the tv, which means that they have no more family life, they belong to the crowd, so to speak, they belong to the media, and they have no individual perspective, they derive their observations, they get them ready made from somebody who packages them. I don't think that's a very good thing for anybody.

Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

No," said the fox. "But the bag of cheese puffs she's carrying might be." "Hahaha," I said. "Boom bloody boom." "On Earth as it is on television," said the fox, and ducked out of sight.

The logistical challenges of holding such a high-profile and market-sensitive event on live television were daunting,

Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

As Gelbart told me about four months before he passed away, "William S. Paley said television was the best cigarette vending machine that anybody ever thought of, and that's still pretty much what it is. I'd just like to see it grow up, and really be the best thing it can be."7

Morgan would later slam down that copy of the Constitution and call it "your little book" – rejecting a universally-accepted framework for discussing gun control, and throwing it in the American people's faces. Just over a year later, Piers was off the air.