People Quote by Fred Allen

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

— David Frost

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

— Groucho Marx

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

— Noel Coward

I'm the type of person who doesn't do television just for the sake of it.

— Gino D'Acampo

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

— Leonard Rossiter

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

— David Frost

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

— Red Skelton

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and…

— Lee Siegel

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

— Noel Coward

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

— Pauline Kael

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

— Jim Henson

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a…

— Gretchen Rubin