Quotes of: American-television Keyword

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

Ted Allen

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

John Walsh

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Norm MacDonald

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Nic Pizzolatto

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Ozzy Osbourne

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

Pamela Anderson

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Pierre Bourdieu

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

Paula Cole

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Patrick Fugit

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Philip Glenister

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

Penny Marshall

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Peggy Noonan

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter De Vries

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Robert Bresson

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Robert Gottlieb

I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

Rachel Maddow

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

Sasha Grey

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Stacy Keach

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Stephen King

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Sugar Ray Leonard

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

Sundar Pichai