Quotes About Television

What other kid, what other boy, would like The Middle? He says it's great because all the Hecks are smart and stupid at the same time. He says most other shows make you be one or the other.

She touched his arm, making his heart skitter. It was never a good sign when they touched you. He had seen far too many television hospital dramas to imagine what was going to come next: the lowered voice, the steady gaze, the bad news.

We just watched them on TV and I screamed like a maniac. I never thought I could scream at some teenybopper group, but I LOVED them!

I would really be doing something right, perhaps even important, if I was bringing even a little more compassion into the world through Big Bird.

And based on the lives depicted on those shows, I knew my life was a different sort of real. It was the only reality I knew, but compared to other folks—both on television and off—it eventually struck me as a little surreal, too. And eventually, too, I understood that my version of reality had a tendency to set me apart from others.

I talked to my agent today. He thinks maybe I should do a television series. I would like to do something where I have to work all the time. Keep my mind off my mind, as it were. Get up real early in the morning, act like someone else all day, and fall asleep at night. A perfect job for me. The fix that doesn't.

Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

He walked around the counter and out into the great room, a large stone-walled space centered around a gigantic flat-screen TV and an entertainment system capable of reaching out into the stars and catching talk shows live from outer space, if outer space had talk shows, which so far it did not.

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

5. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. 6. Television puts a stop to crime because all the burglars and robbers, instead of going to burgle and rob, sit at home watching The Lone Ranger, Emergency Ward Ten and Dotto .

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

Unfortunately, "winning" generally took a bit of a beating when a certain douchebag began using it as his favorite hashtag on Twitter after being fired from his hit television show.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties—particularly the more flamboyant ones—became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations. Even when they were successfully over, they provided days of delightfully acrimonious argument as to how they could have been better managed.

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.