Television Quotes

"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me"

"I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television"

Gale Gordon, Actor

"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'"

Chuck D., Musician

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television"

Woody Allen, Director

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world"

Clive James, Author

"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different"

David Hockney, Artist

"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"

John Zorn, Composer

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life"

Camille Paglia, Author

"I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships"

Andy Warhol, Artist

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