Television Quotes

• Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Weapon
  • Distractrion

• How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Day
  • Television
  • Looked

• Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Live
  • Moving
  • Film

• It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Running
  • Program
  • Wwe

• Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Cables

• And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Diminish

• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kings
  • Luther
  • Announcements

• I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television.

  

  Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
  • Television
  • Thrilled
  • Mount

• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • Energy
  • White Man
  • Railroads

• With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Character
  • Television
  • Project

• We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Television
  • Remain
  • Ratings

• Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Games
  • Events

• Since starting up with the band again it’s kind of shaken every cobweb out of my head and got me rattled in a way—probably in a good way. I can’t relax any more. I can’t sit down and watch the television. I’m torn between the world of being a father, a homeowner and a creative artist and a rock ’n’ roll singer.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Father
  • Band
  • Relax

• I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Firsts
  • Performances
  • Episodes

• I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Television
  • Field
  • Creative Work

• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Kids
  • Guitarist
  • Hendrix

• I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

  

  Brian F. O'Byrne
  • Television
  • Irish
  • Grinning

• Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Television
  • Movement
  • Hip Hop

• Television goes into people's homes, and it reaches them on a very personal level. When you're sitting in your home after a day's work, and you've chosen to watch a show like 'ER,' you're very vulnerable. ... It's a very provocative and engaging and deeply thoughtful show.

  

  James Boswell
  • Television
  • Peoples
  • Homes

• The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Real
  • Brain

• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Music
  • Television
  • Radio

• And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

  

  Sela Ward
  • Should
  • Said
  • Jobs

• I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Television
  • Sorry
  • Crying

• Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Man
  • Television
  • Twin Peaks

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