Television Quotes

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

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

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Camille Paglia, Author

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

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"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

"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

"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

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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

"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show"

John Sebastian, Musician

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show"

David Selby, Actor

"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through"

David Selby, Actor

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure"

Elvis Presley, Musician

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