Television Quotes - Page 40

• The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

  Louise Bernikow

  Loneliness, Average, Waiting

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

  Hedda Hopper

  Creativity, Sixty Minutes, Half

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

  Helene Hanff

  Writing, Kind, Conviction

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• The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Education, Children, Home

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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• You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  World, Today, Documentaries

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• TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

  Natalie Merchant

  Car, Our Society, Tvs

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• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Thinking, News, Speech

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Apples, Netflix, Tvs

  "Meet the Sexiest New Woman on TV". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 30, 2014.

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• Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Coffee, Land, Towns

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Kitchen, Detectives, Made

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• Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Years, Six Months, Actors

  "‘True Detective’ creator on his gripping new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 7, 2014.

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• I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

  A. S. Byatt

  Sports, Thinking, Games

  "Lie back and think of Europe" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2008.

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• When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, People

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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• I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

  Courteney Cox

  Girl, Firsts, Periods

  "Life imitates art for Courtney Cox Arquette". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.

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• Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

  Denis Leary

  Looks, Way, Scripts

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Strong, Mean, Guy

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

  Ron White

  Comedian, Lame, Comic

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

  Ron White

  Dark, Light, Way

  Source: www.collegehumor.com

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• All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Statements

  "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

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• Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that

  Zachary Levi

  Jobs, Past, Great Job

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

  David Letterman

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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