Quotes About Television

The future of American film lies on television.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's, given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon...unnecessary.

I was on a game show. When I lost, they gave me a lovely parting gift. It was a comb.

Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.

In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

There are two types of people in this world. The people who are in tune with reality and those who watch Love & Hip-hop.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

In 75 percent of the television programs shown during hours when American children are most likely to be watching, the hero either kills people or beats them up. This violence typically constitutes the "climax" of the show. Viewers, having been taught that bad guys deserve to be punished, take pleasure in watching this violence.

75 percent of the television programs shown during hours when American children are most likely to be watching, the hero either kills people or beats them up. This violence typically constitutes the "climax" of the show. Viewers, having been taught that bad guys deserve to be punished, take pleasure in watching this violence.

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not on the battlefields of Vietnam.