Television Quotes - page 8

Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product [...] The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics [...] It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head! (RuPaul)
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. View quote
Paul Weyrich
Television has raised writing to a new low. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. View quote
Victor Kiam
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. View quote
Claire Danes
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor. View quote
Walt Disney
Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications? View quote
Donald Norman
Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette. View quote
Gerald Ford
Television is the triumph of machine over people. View quote
Fred Allen
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion. View quote
Randall Jarrell
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written. (Marc Guggenheim)
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else. View quote
Mark Haddon
The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. View quote
Matt Groening
At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television. View quote
Ned Vizzini
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. View quote
Novak Djokovic
What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there. (Andrea Camilleri)
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I have no television - I hate it. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light. View quote
Andrew Weil
Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s. View quote
Annette Funicello