Browsing Topic Best Television Quotes

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Chanting doesn’t stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

The six and one-fourth hours’ television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn’t make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

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

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

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.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it’s some sort of art medium, and it’s not. Others think it’s an entertainment medium, it’s not that either. It’s an advertising medium. It’s a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn’t hurt.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

The audience is never wrong.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it’s awesome.

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

Because after you’ve crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there’s no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

If I’ve done anything, I’ve brought passion to television.

If you feel so strongly about what’s on television, don’t have one.

There are two types of people in this world – those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.

All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don’t even know it.

Where’s the church, who took the steeple, Religion’s in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God’s honest truth is, it’s not that simple

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

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

In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white.