Television Quotes

• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Country
  • Television
  • Instruments

• The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Internet
  • Radio
  • Newspapers

• Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Television
  • Citizens
  • Stupor

• Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Culture
  • Sometimes
  • Affecting

• I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Work
  • Job
  • Career

• Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Mind
  • Radio
  • Mindless

• When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

  

  Stephen Gilchrist Glover
  • Television
  • Abused
  • Notoriety

• I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

  

  David E. Hoffman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.

  

  Mikaela Hoover
  • Different
  • College
  • Program

• Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Imagine
  • Able
  • Answers

• Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

  

  Jonathan Banks
  • Life
  • Film
  • Thank

• I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.

  

  Judy Greer
  • Play
  • Onstage
  • Format

• I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

  

  Mike Newell
  • Great
  • Wanted
  • Really

• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  

  Steve Kanaly
  • Film
  • Persons
  • Western

• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Television
  • Thomas Edison
  • Candlelight

• I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Writing
  • Television
  • Grew

• The greatest influence came from the television and the proliferation of magazines that included contents on pop groups. I believe that at the end of the 1970s, like is happening now, pop and rock were practically separated in the eyes of the public and critics, who considered the first more frivolous and easy and the second more serious and prestigious.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Television
  • Critics
  • Pop Groups

• I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

  

  Michael Ramsey
  • Thinking
  • Doctrine
  • Fashioned

• Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Reality
  • Stars
  • Clear

• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Reading
  • Practice
  • Millions

• It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Economy
  • Century

• I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

  

  Tony Kornheiser
  • Television
  • Radio

• I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

  

  Nic Pizzolatto
  • Window
  • Raised
  • Cultural

• I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

  

  Erskine Caldwell
  • Revolution
  • Violent
  • Human Rights

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