But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

There have been an increasing number of outlets as more and more cable networks are demanding television production and original programming.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d’heure, wondering...

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

There’s a way in which filmmaking is a director’s medium and television is a writer’s medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it’s still guided by the writer.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

We’re used to seeing a radio station turn around in one rating period. You change the talent, the ratings go up, your revenues follow and you’ve made a fortune out of it. Television, unfortunately, is...

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don’t know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I...

Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro...

It’s nice to watch television but it’s even nicer when you’ve got a drink in your hand,’ Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. ‘Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that...

I don’t watch much British television at all. I mean, it’s ironic because I used to work in it for years.

I’d do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It.’

If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you.

I turn on the TV and watch Bewitched. Is life in America really the way it’s portrayed on these television shows? Are people so superficial? Do men really walk around in their suits at home?...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and...

The dumbest thing I ever did? Buying a TV. The smartest thing I ever did? Giving that TV away.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated....

There is a large group that’s not represented on television – the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, ‘You can’t be...

There were some television sets back in the ’50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy’s apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

We’re hoping the format’s going to be reinvigorated with next-generation capability that may include living-room or normal television playback.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they’re, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

I don’t watch a lot of television.

TV — chewing gum for the eyes.

Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)” (2011)Nick Burkhardt: I don’t need you for what you know, I need your nose.Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy’s stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him....

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people...

Television characters live inside our minds as though they’re actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth...

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind...

It’s been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they’d win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental...

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

Television is supposed to be simple, so the complication [of HDTV] seems more dramatic.

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn’t leave, so I finally had to pretend...

Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to...

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be...

I don’t just watch TV all day long. I also listen.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...

I like TV shows that motivate me to want to improve my life, as I sit listless on the sofa hour after hour, night after night. My desire to self-actualize grows with my waistline. If...

And yet that’s the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

We’re so used to events being portrayed in particular ways that when they actually happen to us, and our life bears no resemblance to expectation, we don’t really know how we’re supposed to respond. Our...

Tengo una teoría: la televisión no pertenece a la cultura sino a la neurología; estimula un enlace de neurocircuitos que te permite ver en estado de zombi, suspendiendo el juicio. Y no sólo eso, también...

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Kill your television!