Quotes & Sayings About Tvs

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff. — Darren Shahlavi

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience ... is increasingly visual. — Sol Stein

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd. — Lenny Bruce

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

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV. — Maggie Q

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude. — Katie Couric

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel. — Andy Borowitz

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great. — Jason Statham

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it." — Zak Penn

This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior. We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job. We know we shouldn't spend like this. Sometimes we beat ourselves up over it, but we do it anyway. — J.D. Vance

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person. — Peter Tork

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. — Alain De Botton

The White House is now essentially a TV performance. — Edmund Snow Carpenter

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear. — Jeff Jarvis

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. — Frank Caliendo

Rich men have big libraries.
Poor men have big TVs. — Mark Fox

Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula. — David Alan Basche

I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]'s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time when the middle class was burgeoning with new homes, two-tone American cars, and black-and-white TVs, when American happiness was defined by upwardly mobile consumerism, Kerouac etched a different existence and he wrote in an original language. — Sterling Lord

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree. — Shook

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though. — Leonardo DiCaprio

At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures. — Rebecca Solnit

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality. — Bruce H. Lipton

That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that. — Katee Sackhoff

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater. — Carter Jenkins

TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile. — Bill Skarsgard

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company. — Mark Harmon

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. — Robin Sharma

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon

This was Miami, after all. People come home every day to find their TVs gone, their jewelry and electronics all taken away; their space violated, their possessions rifled, and their dog pregnant. — Jeff Lindsay

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture. — Nick Antosca

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read. — Groucho Marx

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater. — Mary-Louise Parker

I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about. — Amanda Bynes

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening. — Dr. Dre

At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. — Andy Samberg

My TV ain't HD, that's too real — Frank Ocean

That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot. — Stephen Colbert

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it. — Jennifer Stone

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide. — Avril Lavigne

We are taught to believe that the 'alienation' that we experience sometimes, when we withdraw from everything or feel alone, is a craving for something sexual, material, or in the physical - and can be cured by popping a pill in most cases. When in Truth, it's the circuitry within our souls and minds that is hinting to be connected - to real flowing energy - outside of our TVs and computer monitors. What many of us mistaken for depression is actually a need to be understood, or to see desires come to fruition. There is absolutely nothing abnormal about feeling disconnected. Your sensitivity only means you are more human than most. If you cry, you are alive. I'd be more worried if you didn't. — Suzy Kassem

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV. — Craig Ferguson

Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure. — Bob Hope

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people. — Dan Harmon

TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about. — Christopher Locke

I grew up in front of a TV. — Jemaine Clement

When you do late-night TV, you do different jokes in the same place every night. When you're on the road as a comedian, you do the same jokes in a different place every night. — Jay Leno

This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath. — Andy Greenwald

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based. — Mitchell Hurwitz

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience. — Tom Ellis

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk. — Gene Roddenberry

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema? — Noel Clarke

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest. — Andy Kindler

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. — Steve Jobs

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. — Gloria Steinem

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely. — John Lennon

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form. — Mark Duplass

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost. — Scott Aukerman

You can't do anything yourself on TV ... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie. — Tucker Max

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago. — Elizabeth Chandler

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once. — Douglas Coupland

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it. — Nick Antosca

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle. — Tawni O'Dell

I haven't been on a first date over five years.
Five. Years.
Which means, I haven't been on one since 2006.
Let me take you back to that time: 2006.
Tom Cruise and Kathie Holmes celebrated the birth of their little "TomKitten."
The Wii came out - and YouTube was flooded with videos of people throwing those little white remotes into their TVs.
Britney and Kevin call it quits, shocking America to its very core.
Facebook was still just a college campus thing - if you wanted to stalk someone, you had to buy a zoom lens and some night vision goggles.
It was a simpler time. — Elodia Strain

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set. — Steven Moffat

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre. — Michel Auder

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials. — The Edge

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell. — Lech Walesa

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on. — Beth Mowins

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be. — M. Night Shyamalan

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen. — David Copperfield

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film. — Kieran Bew

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV. — Steven Knight

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode. — Jackie Chan

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). — Charles Stross

I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio. — Phyllis Diller

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it. — Eric Mazur

You got all your friends, I got a TV set. — Ray Davies

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time. — Mitchell Hurwitz

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls. — Mary Schmich

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's. — Perry Brass

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context. — David O. Russell

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with. — Bruno Heller

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show. — Dustin Diamond

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working. — Willie Pep

There is a massive gender imbalance on TV — Dawn O'Porter

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium. — Hank Stuever

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book. — Gerald Seymour

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are. — Hank Stuever

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel. — Kerry Wood

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV. — Thomas Jane

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets. — Shel Israel

What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means. — Shari Wiedmann

Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism. — Arthur Kroker

I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them. — James Spann

I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around. — Ann Coulter

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else. — Jon Turteltaub

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces. — Marshall McLuhan