The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you’re in scenes with.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose – that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it’s just not something I want...

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.

I saw him on television. I didn’t vote for his promises. I just looked at him and saw he was just like us. So I told everybody I knew — for example, my kids —...

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason–telling myself, “Well,...

There are many who say that the entrenched interests — television, alumni, legislators, among others — will never truly accept anything less than a continuation of the status quo, … But that is simply unacceptable....

He’s not watching television, ’cause we’ve done some things so he can’t watch television.

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.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

I think that we have to look at television, we have to look at cable, we have to look at the gratuitous levels of violence in our theaters. We as parents have to look at...

Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed...

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.

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.

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.