Television Quotes - Page 2

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.