Quotes about television
television matter entertainment
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87) Neil Postman
television levels appearance
On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. Marc Maron
television bed watches
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible. Samantha Bond
television
Television speeded everything up. Ruth Handler
television bangs pops
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you. Tom Hanks
television sometimes grind
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating. Simon Baker
television want incredibles
There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live. Simon Pegg
television radio gigs
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post. Tony Kornheiser
television
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television. Tony Curtis
television researchers reporters
Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. Tom Wolfe
television fence program
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. Tom Shales
television want fame
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes. Steve Martin
television seven-days hours
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. Steve Buscemi
television internet devices
Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices. Steve Ballmer
television best-things american-television
The Simpsons is the best thing on American television. Stephen Hawking
television vote minutes
Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television. Simon Cowell
television internet forums
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. Tipper Gore
television signposts
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. Robert Adams
television scar
Television leaves no external scars. Robert A. Heinlein
television film ends
I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end. Steven Wright
television littles fiction
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. Steven Spielberg
television watches knows
I don't watch television. I know better than that. Tom Baker
television rehearsal scripts
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it. Tony Hale
television behinds left
I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television. Vanilla Ice
television way rounds
Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. Steven Moffat
television mouths tvs
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. Steven Cojocaru
television whole-family fireplaces
I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather. Red Skelton
television email single-person
I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money. Suze Orman
television want firsts
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. Umberto Eco
television different peers
Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them. Trisha Goddard
television roger film
I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films. Steve Kanaly
television output concentration
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output. Ross Kemp
television information bypass
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. Rupert Murdoch