TV Quotes

• I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Reality
  • Fake
  • Channel

• One of the ideas I came up with was to do a worldwide search for a singer on TV. We discussed how we would do it there was no such thing as reality shows then.

  

  Kirk Pengilly INXS
  • Search
  • Singer
  • Worldwide

• I like TV. It all depends what it is.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • TV

• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Family
  • Movies
  • Theater

• Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Typewriter
  • Paul Kraston

• You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Gun
  • TV
  • Pull out

• People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA personal digital assistant as we are.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Microsoft
  • PDA

• So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • TV
  • Phones

• When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Job
  • Pressure
  • Guest parts

• You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Good
  • May
  • Yoga

• Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • TV
  • Gypsies
  • Jerry Farwell

• The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Truth
  • Play
  • Sponsor

• The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

  

  Edmund Snow Carpenter
  • Performance
  • TV
  • White House

• You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Computer
  • Brain off
  • Brain on

• It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Weird
  • Show
  • TV

• TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Films

• Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • School
  • Cellphone

• I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Picture
  • Radio
  • TV

• In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Language
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Phraseology

• I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

  

  Ming-Na Wen
  • World
  • Family
  • TV

• People tell me they don’t know whom to believe anymore; they are confused. I tell them to believe the people who preach in their mosques and say on TV that they want to kill them. They usually follow through.

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mosques

• Most of my family's so dumb, they sit on the TV and watch the couch.

  

  Alex Bledsoe
  • Dumb
  • TV
  • Couch

• It’s about as close to an established fact as things get in the social sciences: People who watch a lot of TV are more likely to be overweight than people who don’t.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • People
  • TV
  • Social Sciences

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