Television Quotes
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
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Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
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That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
