Television Quotes

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

"Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

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

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

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

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

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

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

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

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

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

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

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

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

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

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.

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.

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

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

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

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

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.

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

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.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.