Television Quotes

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

~ Bob Iger

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

~ Thabo Mbeki

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

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

~ Jack Kilby

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

~ Jack Kilby

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

~ Martin Freeman

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

~ Jason Calacanis

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

~ Busy Philipps

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

~ Henry Mintzberg

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

~ Michael Dirda

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

~ Ruth Rendell

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

~ Steve James

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

~ Lisa Cholodenko

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

~ Maria Semple

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

~ Bob Woodward

Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.

~ Ben Shapiro

There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.

~ Evan Osnos

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

~ Brittany Snow

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

~ Sophie Turner

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

~ David Bowie

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

~ Jimmy Buffett

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

~ Jim Rash

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

~ Paloma Faith

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.

~ Ben Shapiro

I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.

~ Roger Ailes

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

~ Noam Chomsky

I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

~ Dan Harmon

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

~ Jake Barton

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

~ J. J. Abrams

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

~ T. S. Eliot

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

~ Laura Marano

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

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

~ Margaret Mead

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

~ William Gibson

Television has changed. There's obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I'm not closed off to television. If there's an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I'd definitely be open to it.

~ Amanda Crew

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

~ Dawn French

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

~ Howard Zinn

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

~ Michael J. Fox