Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Votes: 7
Ann LandersTelevision, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... Votes: 5
Michael FrantiTelevision has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. Votes: 5
Laurence J. PeterBut when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. Votes: 4
Charles BarkleyTelevision is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. Votes: 4
Paddy ChayefskyTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. Votes: 4
Gore VidalTelevision, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. Votes: 3
Paul FleischmanTelevision really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. Votes: 3
Christine LahtiTelevision, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium. Votes: 3
William S. PaleyTelevision news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. Votes: 3
Jessica SavitchTelevision has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. Votes: 3
Steven SpielbergTelevision doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. Votes: 3
Michael O'DonoghueIf everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. Votes: 3
John LennonOn some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. Votes: 3
Marc MaronWe live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. Votes: 3
Edwin NewmanTelevision is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children. Votes: 3
Paul WeyrichTelevision makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. Votes: 3
Fred W. FriendlyI hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Votes: 3
Orson WellesWe owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Votes: 2
Milton BerleWhen I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. Votes: 2
Phil DanielsThe news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. Votes: 0
Nicholas D. KristofI was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television Votes: 0
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of FawsleyWe believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything. Votes: 0
Dieter HildebrandtAmerican television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television. Votes: 0
Jason Winston GeorgeFilm, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0
David StrathairnIf it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodLights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television. Votes: 0
Johnny OlsonI don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. Votes: 0
Edward HirschWhen television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse. Votes: 0
Newton N. MinowMy job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize. Votes: 0
Deborah NorvilleI like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. Votes: 0
Harry Dean StantonI think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. Votes: 0
Michael K. PowellThe pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money. Votes: 0
Marshall HerskovitzI would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do. Votes: 0
Rowan AtkinsonI was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. Votes: 0
Allison WilliamsWe have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television. Votes: 0
Josh SchwartzMy mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. Votes: 0
George ForemanMy only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television Votes: 0
Jean Paul GaultierIn television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. Votes: 0
David Ogden StiersThere are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. Votes: 0
Philip GlenisterThe sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. Votes: 0
William GibsonColor television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. Votes: 0
Samuel GoldwynIt's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few. Votes: 0
Scott M. GimpleI want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality. Votes: 0
Gordon RamsayI find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies.
Lauren Shuler DonnerIn film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
Charles Keating, Jr.I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.
George H. W. BushTelevision reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.
Janet Street-PorterTelevision in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
Richard M. NixonI am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.
Gloria Calderon KellettI don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.
Sarah Michelle GellarThere are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.
Taylor MomsenI have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.
Akiva GoldsmanFor us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
Aldo LeopoldI think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.
Amanda SchullI love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.
Dennis LehaneHow can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?
George CarlinWhether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Mignon McLaughlinPeople over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.
Billy Bob ThorntonIt's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.
Linda EllerbeeTelevision was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.
Richard LloydI can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.
Richard SammelI went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
Charlotte Gainsbourgnot all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.
Erma BombeckDisparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
George WillOne of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.
Peter M. LenkovI know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
Robert UrichDirecting television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
Steve BuscemiI don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
Charles GrodinI don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.
Charlize TheronDon't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
Chris HardwickThe more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
Geena DavisThe mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiMy family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
Missi PyleYou know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.
Robert SchimmelI've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.
Sarah PaulsonBetween the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.
Steven MoffatI've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.
Tom VerlaineFood television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
Wolfgang PuckWhat really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.
Adrian YoungeTelevision can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.
Bill MoyersI'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.
Colin CunninghamI stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.
Donna Rice HughesMike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
Errol MorrisIt is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.
Joe QueenanKids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
Kevin SpaceyI have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.
Natasha LyonneLoneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.
Pearl CleageTelevision made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.
Roy AcuffTelevision is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.
Will WrightIt's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
Aaron TveitMuch of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.
Craig FergusonYou can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.
Fergus McCannI did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Isabelle HuppertAsian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
John ChoI made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Nigel KnealeYou need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.
Berti VogtsI think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.
Conan O'BrienThere's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.
Eric IdleUnfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
George R. R. MartinThere aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.
Gina TorresOften in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
James WolkI have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
Malcolm MuggeridgeShort of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
Phyllis A. WhitneyI couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.
Stephanie RothmanIt feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.
Aeriel MirandaTelevision is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Gary DavidThere'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.
Liza MarklundThe power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
Melissa LeoTelevision is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
Terence McKennaMy day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.
Tom ScharplingI never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
Willie GeistWhen you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
Benjamin ClementineThe genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.
Bridget ReganI did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Brion JamesAll the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.
Chris HayesThe money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
Christopher EcclestonPeople don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.
David OgilvyI don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.
Eric AndreSo far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.
George ClooneyI'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
James LiptonThe television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
Jeffrey EugenidesI think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.
Joe BuckThose worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
John TeshYou can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials
Steve RifkindI'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.
Edwin DiamondTelevision is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
Gore VidalEven on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
Hans BlixTelevision bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.
Jeremy PaxmanYes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.
John BrunnerPart of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.
Katee SackhoffThe funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
Kevin SorboTelevision. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.
Leonard RossiterThe difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
Alan BallTelevision won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Darryl F. ZanuckWe live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Don DeLilloTelevision is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
Gary ColemanRichard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
Gerald R. FordTelevision is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.
Groucho MarxI never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Helene HanffI hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
Martha PlimptonDonald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.
Van JonesI read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.
Anjelica HustonActually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
Beverley MitchellI still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.
Brion JamesYou make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house
Christine BaranskiAnyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive JamesMovies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.
George CarlinI have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
Gore VidalThe problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.
John FugelsangI didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
Kiefer SutherlandI've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
Kristen JohnstonI do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
Sarah SuttonHBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
Tom Snyder'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.
Anthony EdwardsTelevision series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.
Bob NewhartI would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
Janet JacksonTelevision is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
Marina AbramovicI never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.
Nicolas CageAnyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user
Pat SajakOne day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.
Pat SajakTelevision exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
Paul VirilioI consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.
Red SkeltonEveryone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.
Stephen ChboskyPeople are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Assata ShakurI think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.
Bryan CranstonActually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
Chuck PalahniukI had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Daniel ClowesAt the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.
Hiro MuraiWar today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
John BoyneIt is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
John HumphrysUnless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.
Justin TherouxTelevision is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.
Thomas JaneI've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
Tony KornheiserMay I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
Werner HerzogLost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson