A Month of Quotations about Television

A Month of Quotations about Television

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

- Michael J. Fox

Conversation that disappears into the television set.

- Eugene Brussell

Books -- what they make a movie out of for television.

- Leonard Levinson

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

- Larry Gelbart

Don't do anything you wouldn't be willing to explain on television.

- Arjay Miller

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

- Theodore H. White

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

- S. I. Hayakawa

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

- Michelle Obama

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

- Loretta Young

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

- Oprah Winfrey

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching?

- Nicholas Johnson

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just he savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

- Alice Walker

Film is the director's medium, television the writer's, but the theater is the actor's.

- Laurence Olivier

In America you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's the same.

- Joan Armatrading

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased.

- Clive James

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

- Jack Paar

If we think of [television] programming as an all-American menu, then the detective show is definitely the hamburger.

- Martha Bayles

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

- Richard Nixon

I was appalled at a program with people throwing pies at each other's faces. I saw television as a real challenge. I wanted to make a difference.

- Fred Rogers

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just he savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

- Alice Walker

If Shakespeare were alive today I feel sure he would be a television writer. Thoreau, of course, would not only not write for the medium, he wouldn't have owned a set.

- James Michener

I am always apologizing for it, criticizing it, defending it, praising it, damning it, loving it and hating it ... that glamorous enfant terrible of journalism, television news.

- Don Bresnahan

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

- Andy Warhol

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

- Fred Allen

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

- Michelle Obama

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

- Loretta Young

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

- Ron Howard

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

- Theodore H. White

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

- S. I. Hayakawa

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

- Truman Capote

American football is an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and television commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play.

- London Times