Quotes About Television

Television was soon to eclipse print's inky cloud with its magnetic flare of electrons, pulling millions from their reading chairs to the viewing couch.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.