Television Quotes
The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.
As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.
When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.
People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.
I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.
Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.
One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
