Skip to content

Audience Quote by James Purdy

“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not…” quote by James Purdy — Download Open image

“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Audience Brain Holes Sticks Television Viewers

More by James Purdy

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

Image

“Pleasure died forty years ago in America, perhaps further back, in a wave of carbon monoxide, gasoline, cigarettes for dames, the belief in everything…

Image

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

Image

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York…

Image

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a…

Image

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn…

Image

Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison.…

Image

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm…

Image

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

Image

“Writing is like a battle. You’re often so into it you don’t have any high ideals. You’re just doing it. I have all these…

Image

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find…

Image

The worse the author, the more he is known.

Image

Explore all 35 James Purdy quotes

More Audience quotes

If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made…

Image

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very…

Evgeni Plushenko

Image

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other…

Image

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

Image

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

Image

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater…

Image

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

Image

When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it…

Image

Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional…

Image

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

Image

I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you…

Image

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

Image

Browse all 8,546 Audience quotes