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I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.
Gallagher1946–2022
- Comedy
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965New York Post (Sept 22, 1963)
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth⁠—I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brownborn 1962
Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
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
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
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)
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
Television is the first truly democratic culture⁠—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes1927–2008
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen1894–1956Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Television”