Television Quotes

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

~ Marilyn Manson

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

~ Nate Berkus

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

~ Milton Berle

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

~ Johnny Carson

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

~ Alfred Hitchcock

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

~ Steve Erickson

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

~ Terry Wogan

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

~ Robert Osborne

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

~ Jack Germond

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

~ Paddy Chayefsky

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

~ John Cleese

I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.

~ Alison Sweeney

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

~ Dario Argento

Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It's a disturbing trend, and I feel really sad when I see small kids dancing to such numbers in television shows. In my career so far, I have refused any song whose lyrics I haven't been comfortable with.

~ Shreya Ghoshal

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

~ Fred Allen

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

~ Tom Wolfe

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

~ Marina Abramović

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

~ Laurence J. Peter

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

~ Peter Jackson

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

~ Lady Gaga

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

~ Joss Whedon

I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.

~ Laura Dern

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

~ George Clooney

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

~ Flavor Flav

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

~ Marianne Williamson

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

~ Tom Petty

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

~ Fran Drescher

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

~ Victoria Wood

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

~ Maynard James Keenan

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

~ Paul Erdos

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

~ Bob Woodward

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

~ Henrik Fisker

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

~ Drew Houston

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

~ Chris Pratt

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

~ Sundar Pichai

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

~ Gene Roddenberry

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

~ Aaron Sorkin

Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.

~ Elizabeth Reaser