Television Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, Wife, House

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

  Morgan Freeman

  Educational, Thinking, Tools

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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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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• Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Believe, Passion

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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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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• [Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Littles, Might

  Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

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• In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Special, Important

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• Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.

  Marie Winn

  Song, Games, Special

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• A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.

  Marie Winn

  Real, People, Events

  Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Reality, Trouble, Fame

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• Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

  M.C. Beaton

  People, Upset, Nasty

  M. C. Beaton (2007). “Death of a Village”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Sex, Drug, Tvs

  T.J. MacGregor (2016). “Storm Surge”, p.65, Crossroad Press

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• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  Louise Hart

  Real, Communication, Interaction With Others

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• In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Film And Television, Film, Pampered

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Computer, Politician

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Tvs, Advertising

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

  Jennifer Stone

  Shapes, Tvs, Language

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

  Mark Salling

  Real, Passion, Boys

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