Quotes About Television

In our post-1950s, inseparable-from-TV association pool, brand loyalty really is synecdochic of character.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

God, you Jews are truly exotic. Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

Well, I don't particularly like game shows. I mean, I think I did them well. I could do them, but it didn't mean I really liked them. I never watched any of the game shows that were on television at the time, like The Price Is Right, To Tell The Truth, all those shows. I think that also probably gave me an edge, because I never really copied much of what they did. I liked my shows--they made me laugh--but I didn't like anybody else's.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

In early-twenty-first-century America, when political debate is often confined to shouting on cable television or posting on Twitter, it's even more valuable to revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urged, even revolutionary.

modo: "Lo cierto es que las catedrales no significan nada especial para mí. Nada. Catedrales. Es algo que se ve en la televisión a última hora

I don't know that I aspired to be in politics, though, no. I mean, this was not a goal of mine. This was not a part of my original life plan. But having done television, and having been able to be in the public eye, and get a platform and a microphone, so to speak -- both figuratively and literally -- I have an opportunity to speak and have people listen.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

She cared for Britain. It took a lot for an Irish Catholic woman to say that. But she thought it was better to live in the agony of a permanent mental and physical cauldron than die slowly of television.

In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone's home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.

The only danger, perhaps, is that if the predicted day arrives when each of us has at home a color television set with a screen the size of a wall, carrying sports events originated on all continents, we may never get outdoors again.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.