Character Quote by Red Skelton

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

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

— David Frost

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

— Fred Allen

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such…

— Vick Hope

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

— Janis Joplin

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow…

— Albert Borgmann

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”

— Jean Thompson

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

— Nina Tassler

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

— David Caruso

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

— Leonard Rossiter