television quotes

• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. (Jean Baudrillard) [laughter/television/countries/business]
• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. (Jean Baudrillard) [nice/eyes/television]
• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. (Jean Baudrillard) [television/night/day/fear]
• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. (Shirley Chisholm) [reality/more/television/more]
• Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. (David Hockney) [television]
• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. (Norman Mailer) [difference/being/television/difference]
• I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. (Groucho Marx) [find/television/time]
• Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. (Malcolm Muggeridge) [television/human]
• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. (Rupert Murdoch) [quality/television/more/elite]
• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. (Nathalie Sarraute) [television]
• Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. (Gore Vidal) [chance/sex/television]
• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. (Gore Vidal) [chance/sex/television]
• I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives. (Oprah Winfrey) [television/help/people]
• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do. (Nastassja Kinski) [parents/television/parents]
• I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. (Pamela Anderson) [watch/television]
• I've never wanted to do anything other than model. I'm best at selling lipstick. Acting and television work just don't appeal to me. (Helena Christensen) [television]
• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die. (Kate Bush) [top/television]
• And being able to do it with people that you really admire and like, that helped me learn and understand what I have to do for a television show. (Daisy Fuentes) [being/people/television]
• I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing. (Shania Twain) [television/weird]
• “[LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 (Reuters) - An investigation by the Fox television network has found no evidence to support assertions by a former contestant on the hit television show] American Idol, ... grateful this ordeal is over. (Paula Abdul) [television/network/support/television]
• [Officials from the Fox Television Network announced Friday (August 12) that investigators found no evidence to support a former American Idol contestant's claims that he had an affair with judge Paula Abdul. According to the Associated Press, Fox officials said Paula will be back as a judge on the show's upcoming season and that they will be implementing an] enhanced non-fraternization ... I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. (Paula Abdul) [television/network/support/press]
• We've had a long ride back from a cancellation of a short-lived television series to the release of a major motion picture. I don't know if there's any other story equivalent to that in Hollywood history (Adam Baldwin) [television/motion]
• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. (Adam Baldwin) [television/watch/time]
• I worked live television, plays, Broadway, Off-Broadway, films. Do what you got to do. Still do. The old mule still pulls the wagon. Not as fast, but still pulls it, gets it home. (Al Lewis) [television/housing]
• Most young people think television was around during the cave man days, but that's a "Johnny-Come-Lately," television. (Al Lewis) [people/think/television/television]
• That's where the term "soap opera" comes from. And then television came around, the old Dumont Network, days of live television. (Al Lewis) [television/network/television]
• They're willing to suck in all this crap that comes over the television. (Alec Baldwin) [television]
• The new movie I'm working on right now is very autobiographical. It's about a television actor who drinks too much and gets blackballed from the industry, and then he decides to break back in by directing his own movie (Andy Dick) [movie/right/television/movie]
• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. (Andy Griffith) [television/film/stage/willpower]
• I'm happy when I'm productive, ... And television allows you to do that. (Benjamin Bratt) [television]
• I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. (Benjamin Bratt) [mind/stage/television/film]

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