Quotes about television
32 quotes from 29 people
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980National Observer (15 August 1966).
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
Rod Serling1924–1975First introduction to The Twilight Zone television series; first episode (2 October 1959).
Umberto Eco1932–2016“Can Television Teach?” in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)- BBanksyborn 1973Wall and Piece (2007)
Gene Wolfe1931–2019Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
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)
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962) (5 November 1958)
William Shatnerborn 1931Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large (2011), with Chris ReganYou see, most people with multiple personalities get therapy. I get my own HBO comedy series!
Tracey Ullmanborn 1959Tracey Takes On… (1996–99)I’m not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.
Matthew Perry1969–2023GQ (November 2000)The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don’t read and they rarely listen.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Younger Generation”The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 6I think of him as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes (30 April 2006)