Television Quotes - Page 39

• A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

  Jim Parrack

  Static

  "True stories of 'True Blood' star". Interview with Joanie Cox, articles.sun-sentinel.com. October 15, 2011.

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• When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

  Wendy Raquel Robinson

  Thinking, Black, Bars

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• Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

  Bob Gunton

  Roles, Goering, Juan

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• The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

  James Frain

  Buccaneers, Novel, Adapted

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• The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

  Gina Bellman

  Coupling, Locals, Only Time

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• TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

  Ann Landers

  Impact, Hands, Stronger

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Python, Pet, Phases

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Media, Information, Entertainment

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Rochelle Chadakoff, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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• Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Competition, Littles

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• TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Tvs, Kind, Collectivity

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• On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

  Ellen Goodman

  Attitude, Thinking, May

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• Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

  Erica Jong

  Simple, Actors, Might

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• Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

  Mae West

  Cat, Hollywood, Mice

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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• TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.

  Roseanne Barr

  Art, Reflection, Land

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

  Shelley Long

  Essence, Play, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

  CM Punk

  Ideas, People, T Shirt

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

  Hilary Swank

  Moving, Play, Let It Go

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Facts

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• my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Hate, Ideas

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