American Television Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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American television really is pathetic.
— Brian Eno
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I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and…
— Toni Collette
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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is
— Isaac Mizrahi
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There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
— Rob James-Collier
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
— Graham Norton
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There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it…
— Peter Ustinov
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Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the…
— Tom Brokaw
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What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would.…
— John Barrowman
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food,…
— Fredric Jameson
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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the…
— Chris Hardwick
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That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
— Julian Fellowes
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I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least…
— Hugh Laurie
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American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
— Jason Winston George
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The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
— Hugh Laurie
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My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on…
— Joss Whedon
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there…
— Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
— Bruce Jackson
Who Wrote These American Television Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 American Television Quotes as follows: