Millie? Does the White Clown love you?

Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.

Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I’m a television junkie.

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands...

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work,...

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer’s life span.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

The problem with not being able to receive an over the air signal is that everyone who has a television set that uses an antenna, as opposed to using cable or satellite, may never see...

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become ‘A Grand Day Out.’

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make...

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about...

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

You fight for certain roles, and you realise they’re being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.

Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors.””I don’t want that. I want to work in TV.””Trust me, Laura. You’d be happier if you were an accountant.

Television wasn’t getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle…Just like the...

It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers’ new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for ‘Such Great Heights’ made by the same filmmakers responsible for...

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

I’ve noticed that you are retarded, Dr. Phil.

What exactly does that expression mean, ‘friends with benefits’? Does he provide her with health insurance?

We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it ‘ s a sort of detective thing, but it ‘ s really true, you know it ‘ s there ‘¦ But it ‘ s...

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

It was the highest television rating in that entire 24-hour period.

We should see a significant recovery in cable television stock prices in the next few months.

A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, ‘You did this to me!’ but she is still super beautiful. There’s none of the realism...

I emphasise it now; I had little-to-nothing in common with other people. Their values I did not comprehend, their ideals were to me a living horror. Call it ostentatious but I even sought to provide...

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how...

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call “Microwave Media”. I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he’s frozen in people’s minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like ‘Project Runway’.

I’m just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We’re false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.

I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ‘Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

Television, in particular, doesn’t look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

I hid my feelings for her for years, and I thought all was well until my neighbor went digging in her garden and found them buried in the ground. I’m so embarrassed I could just...

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

Idling is important. Most people don’t know how. They’re afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course… you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.