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.

When I was a kid doing television, they’d stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved...

Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone...

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that’s turned into entertainment.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive.

I don’t think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the...

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing...

I feel guilty because for a long time I didn’t allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple...

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

Once a coach, always a coach. I don’t think it ever leaves you. When I was a television analyst, I would study both teams and prepare a game plan, just as I did when I...

We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has...

Televizyon okuma kültürünü yok etmiştir. Halbuki zihinsel gelişim için okuma eyleminin yerini hiçbir eylem tutamaz. Seyirci olmak için hiçbir beceri gerekmez. “Televizyon okuma-yazma kültürünü genişletmez ve pekiştirmez. Tersine, okuma-yazma kültürüne saldırır. Televizyon, herhangi bir şeyin...

That’s the miracle of television. They’ll fix it in the edit.

You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan’s Island.

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes...

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn’t want my name attached to....

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you’ve got to be in control.

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted...

Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow...

Is my coitus whimsically inventive?

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn’t make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Scheduling is too much in this league for television and not enough for the players. It’s very disheartening to look at scheduling and see that. Granted, TV’s important, but it shouldn’t run the league.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked...

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

If I can go through what I’ve been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that’s...

I’ve seen him many times on television. I don’t think I could hit him.

We’re just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early ’90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

With correction, and given the chance, ‘Terra Nova’ can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew ‘Terra Nova’ is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the...

I devised a test.I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep...

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is ‘Archer’ and’ Frisky Dingo.’

One of the benefits to television is that you’re with these characters for years, you know them so well.

We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don’t think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme...

So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it’s going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and...

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every ‘Mindfreak’ you see, I can do live.

Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules”? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies...

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am...

In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they...

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

[…] I’d wake up in the middle of the night to the Star-Spangled Banner and some old film of a flag blowing in the wind, telling you the day was over and it was long...