Television Quotes - Page 62

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

We stand or fall by television.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Nothing good about the sun if you're trying to watch television with out curtains.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

Television wasn't prestigious.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.