Top Television Quotes

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course.He was on again last night.He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.

There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them? Terrence asked.Simple: Some days, all you have...

I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the sa...

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, enga...

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly ex...

The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a...

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no ski...

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

There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.)...

I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, reall...

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a b...

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President hi...

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.