I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it! — that human beings...

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised...

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

We mustn’t change history,’ Susan pouted. Ian had been so awed by her work on the portal, he’d almost forgotten she was just in her teens.’But Susan,’ said the Doctor in his softest voice, ‘we...

Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.

Sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. You’re uncomfortable, but you just can’t help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.

Television and I grew up together.

This is a powerful breakthrough. It’s a continuation in the personalization of television.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Is it really that important? It’s just television, for God’s sake. It’s not medicine or something.

What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?…It’s a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be...

He lies on the couch all day watching television. I admire his classic American ambition. He’s probably a better lover than me.

It’s worse than the television pictures.

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in...

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn’t go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they’re so...

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don’t mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.

‘South Park’ is so hilarious… I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

There’s a television show, ‘Hoarders,’ where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything.

La televisión produce imágenes y anula los conceptos, y de este modo atrofia nuestra capacidad de abstracción y con ella toda nuestra capacidad de entender.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work....

Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns.

I don’t want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I’ve been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century...

As long as they had some kind of ball in their hand or watching some sporting event on television, they were pretty happy.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wolfman,’ ‘Dracula,’ ‘Mummy,’ all the Universal stuff.

I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.

I was very happy here with my job in daytime television as Erica Kane. And being able to see my children, and all of that has worked for me.

If you look into the face of evil, evil’s gonna look right back at you

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you’ve never seen the same character twice.

Not only these were new kinds of stories, they were being told with a new kind of formal structure. […] The result was a storytelling architecture you could picture as a colonnade – each episode...

[Mr. Robertson, the founder of the Christian Coalition, said Monday on his television program,] The 700 Club, … thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do...

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.[Written by Matthew Weiner]

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they’re all out of central casting.

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space – that sort of thing.

…and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.