Quotes of: American-television Keyword

Television Commentator: Your name, please. Clayton Townley: Clayton Townley, local businessman. Television Commentator: Are you, sir, a spokesman for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? Clayton Townley: I told you, I'm a businessman. I'm also a Mi...

Mississippi Burning

Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.

Seth Shostak

When you look at Kennedy and Nixon, TV played a crucial part in Kennedy's popularity. He was incredibly photogenic, while Nixon was this scowling figure. American viewers judged him on his appearance on TV.

Peyton Reed

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

Joss Whedon

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

Kevin McKidd

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Paul Erdos

Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.

Brenda Song

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Annette Funicello

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gon...

Erik Estrada

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Prince Andrew

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Gerard Depardieu

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson

There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'

Kevin Barry

I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.

Reid Scott

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

Pierce Brosnan

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Paul Weyrich

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

Dominic West

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Bruce Jackson

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Ben Shapiro

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Alfred Hitchcock