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The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 6
- Comedy
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen1894–1956Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BBanksyborn 1973Wall and Piece (2007)
- Art
- Photography
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
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
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
I 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)
- Comedy
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
Umberto Eco1932–2016“Can Television Teach?” in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12
- Democracy
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)
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”
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”
- Youth
I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.
Gallagher1946–2022
- Comedy
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
Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980