American Television Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

• 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
• American television really is pathetic. — Brian Eno
• 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
• Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is — Isaac Mizrahi
• 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
• 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
• Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. — Graham Norton
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. — Julian Fellowes
• 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
• American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television. — Jason Winston George
• The glory of American television is Dennis Franz. — Hugh Laurie
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 American Television Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
• 2 American Television Quotes by Hugh Laurie
• 1 American Television Quote by Toni Collette
• 1 American Television Quote by Tom Brokaw
• 1 American Television Quote by Robert Neelly Bellah
• 1 American Television Quote by Rob James-Collier
• 1 American Television Quote by Peter Ustinov
• 1 American Television Quote by Malcolm-Jamal Warner
• 1 American Television Quote by Lennie James
• 1 American Television Quote by Julian Fellowes
• 1 American Television Quote by Joss Whedon
• 1 American Television Quote by John Barrowman
• 1 American Television Quote by Jason Winston George
• 1 American Television Quote by Isaac Mizrahi
• 1 American Television Quote by Graham Norton
• 1 American Television Quote by Fredric Jameson
• 1 American Television Quote by Chris Hardwick
• 1 American Television Quote by Bruce Jackson
• 1 American Television Quote by Brian Eno