Boast Quote by Bennett Cerf

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If anything, I believe, television anchors have become parodies of themselves, self-caricatures if such a thing is possible. And I'd dismiss it all with…

— Barkha Dutt

We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the same, if…

— Philip Glenister

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived…

— Edgar Bergen

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

— Fran Lebowitz

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

— Craig Ferguson

The best kind of television should mess with your head.

— Liam Cunningham

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

— Alain de Botton

Isn't television glamourous?

— Adam Savage

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who…

— James Pearse Connelly

It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into…

— Tom Shales

I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.

— Padma Lakshmi