Television Quotes · Page 136

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

— Ted Shackelford

“Violence - the kind you see on television - is not honestly violent, there lies its harm.”

— William Strunk Jr

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak…

— Richard M. Nixon

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you…

— Chelsea Peretti

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

— Nick Hornby

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

— Joe Calzaghe

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or…

— David Tennant

I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that…

— Dustin Clare

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and…

— Ant McPartlin

Oviya' as a story is intriguing and exciting to work for. The character I play as part of the show, even if…

— Manobala

I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island…

— Justin Theroux

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to…

— David Simon

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through…

— Shonda Rhimes

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?…

— Bill McKibben

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

— Yeardley Smith

There's generally a couple of months' gap between shows. And I am rather glad it's been that way because I am a…

— Sriti Jha

It was this really bizarre video idea, this animated Power Ranger-y thing. I said, 'This is not right. If you want me…

— Britney Spears

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

— Dan Harmon

For the first time I watched Big Bang Theory. Loved it! ¨But what's it come to when I need a dictionary to…

— Jaimie Fayt

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

— Michael Ramsey

When television emerged, it opened up many avenues for actors like me, but after a point, it also became very limiting.

— Soni Razdan

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

— David Shuster

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

— Stephen Chbosky

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

— Evan Spiegel

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

— Jack Valenti

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

— BD Wong

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I mean, when you really look at it, Mr. Peabody and Sherman were the original 'Modern Family.'

— Rob Minkoff

For me as a young kid, my parents took me to random cities. I stayed at my relatives and the biggest trouble…

— Ritesh Agarwal

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on…

— Matt LeBlanc

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that…

— David Foster Wallace

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

— Alice Barrett

I've become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

— Lee Unkrich

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

— Ellen Goodman