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I’m not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.
Matthew Perry1969–2023GQ (November 2000)
- Comedy
- Television
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, “Mission Logs: Year Five”, “A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry”, 0:26:09)
- Hope
- Television
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962) (5 November 1958)
- Television
People ask me what my favorite episode of Full House is; it was the last one!
Bob Saget1956–2022Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (2007)
- Comedy
- Television
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
Rod Serling1924–1975First introduction to The Twilight Zone television series; first episode (2 October 1959).
- Television
Star Trek never really caught on with audiences, ran for three seasons, and was canceled. I wish I had taken notes at the time, because you people sure do have a lot of questions about it.
William Shatnerborn 1931Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large (2011), with Chris Regan
- Comedy
- Television
The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.
FTFrank Tyger
You see, most people with multiple personalities get therapy. I get my own HBO comedy series!
Tracey Ullmanborn 1959Tracey Takes On… (1996–99)
- Comedy
- Television
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cold Turkey (2004)
- Politics
- Television
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cold Turkey (2004)
- Television
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
- Television
Here in two flat sentences are the best things I can say about our field on American television: Dr. Who is sometimes aired. Sometimes Battlestar Galactica is not.
Gene Wolfe1931–2019Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
- Clever Jabs
- Television
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959
- Television