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.

My favorite television show of all time is ‘Hill Street Blues.’ I think it’s the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn...

I have this phobia: I don’t like mirrors. And I don’t watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like “the...

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can’t hide who you are.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was ‘The Prisoner.’

This is a major breakthrough. It’s a precedent, … We’re moving to personalized television. That’s the strategy Comcast has bet on.

I had a dream about you, I had come home late at night and you were on the couch with your arms raised as if you were reaching for the sky when I asked what...

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the ’80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as...

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

A mirror is like my own personal reality TV show—where I’m both the star and only viewer. I’ve got to get my ratings up.

I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad!

I’ve always been a fan of advertising, I’ve always been a fan of television, I’ve loved commercials, I’ve loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

My biggest television weakness is ‘Dragons’ Den.’

He couldn’t make the thought go anywhere, and soon zoned out into watching the television screen. It showed a crazy-haired old gent tramping around an undistinguished patch of countryside. He couldn’t remember selecting the channel,...

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I’m also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.