Quotes & Jokes about Television / page 2

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

I don’t know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

But it’s like guys are thinking, "I don't want to fuck her, what is she doing on my television?"

All television is an advertisement - that’s why it exists. It wasn’t the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It’s for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don’t have a problem with that since it’s what keep us employed.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

I don't like this reality television, I have to be honest, ... I think real people should not be on television. It's for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real.

All parents suck. There's not a good one out there. Not one. You people watching right now... if you were good parents you would turn this television off, you would grab a book, and you would read to you children.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.