Television Quotes - Page 6

• Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.

  Linda Blair

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

  Dov Davidoff

  Acronyms, Tvs, Strange

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 21, 2011

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• In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

  Marilyn Manson

  Terrorism, Advent

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

  Carl Sagan

  Night, Doors, Sky

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Years, Feel Good, Age

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Funny, Brain, Nuclear

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

  Trevor McDonald

  Discovery, Fake, Genuine

  "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Character, Black, Backgrounds

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• The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Running, Discovery

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Night, People

  "Salad days for satire". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. February 8, 2015.

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• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Irreverence

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

  Sean William Scott

  Watches, Dukes, Bedroom

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• I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

  John Larroquette

  Guests, Shots

  "10 Questions With John Larroquette". Interview with Stacy Jenel Smith, www.aarp.org. March 17, 2011.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Guy, Surf

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  John Sayles

  Book, Writing, People

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• I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

  Eric Idle

  Ideas, People, Gang

  "Something familiar: Monday night fall TV" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. August 31, 1999.

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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