Television Quotes - Page 9

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

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?

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

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.