Television Quotes

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

I'm very wary of news on television.

Television can be a very fickle place

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

Television is the third parent.

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.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.