Television Quotes - Page 35

• I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

  Kurt Sutter

  Kids, Essentials, Kind

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• When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Book, Eye, Loss

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Baby, Children, Motherhood

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

  Joe Queenan

  Dancing, Republican, Exciting

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• If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

  Anna Quindlen

  Intelligent, Cheese Sandwiches, Views

  "Frankincense In Aisle Five!". www.newsweek.com. December 25, 2005.

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• I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

  Roseanne Barr

  Writing, Easier, Teach

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• 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?

  Donald A. Norman

  Book, Trying, Use

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Anxiety, Marketing, News

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Radio

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• The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

  Andy Warhol

  People, One Day, President

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Soul, Metrics

  "No News is Good News". Interview with Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Liars, School

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.

  Gillian Anderson

  Cameras, Exhausted, Process

  "Gillian Anderson : TV or not TV". The Star-Ledger, January 22, 2006.

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• In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

  Matthew Perry

  Ego, Theatre, Way

  "Back from the brink: Fame almost destroyed Friends star Matthew Perry. Now, as he makes his West End stage debut, he tells Neil Norman how he beat his addictions". Neil Norman, Evening Standart, May 1, 2003.

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• I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

  Scarlett Johansson

  Stars, Thinking, Reality

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• Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

  Jennifer Beals

  People, Identity, Culture

  "The Chicago Code: Interview With Jennifer Beals". Interview with Lynn DeVries, tvdramawatch.com. February 04, 2011.

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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Gambling

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• When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Hollywood, Actors

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.

  Rick Tramonto

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

  Jack Jason

  Grandparent, Sign Language, Firsts

  "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Kids, Way, Excited

  Source: collider.com

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• Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Tvs, Looks

  Source: variety.com

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

  John Humphrys

  Real, Radio, Politician

  2000 The Devil's Advocate.

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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