Quotes about television

Welcome to our Television collection, a portal to the captivating world of small-screen entertainment that has shaped cultures, sparked conversations, and brought stories to life in living rooms around the globe. In this curated compilation of quotes, we explore the diverse landscape of television, celebrating its power to inform, entertain, and connect.

Television is more than a box in the corner of the room; it's a medium that has evolved to reflect the aspirations, challenges, and dreams of society. Our Television quotes celebrate the creativity of writers, the talent of actors, and the cultural impact of shows that have left an indelible mark on our hearts and minds.

Whether you're a dedicated binge-watcher, an enthusiast of classic TV, or simply curious about the influence of television on our lives, these quotes offer insights into the dynamic evolution of the medium and its enduring relevance.

Embark on a journey that explores the golden age of television, the evolution of genres, and the connections forged between viewers and characters. Discover the power of storytelling that transcends time and space, and appreciate the shared experiences that television brings into our daily lives.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Author
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Tommy Smothers
Tommy Smothers
Comedian
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.
Len Wiseman
Len Wiseman
Talented Filmmaker of "Underworld"
When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.
Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash
American actress, comedian and television host
I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.
Bill Pullman
Bill Pullman
American actor
There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt
English Novelist
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
Aarti Mann
Aarti Mann
American Actress
Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
Adrian Anthony Gill
Adrian Anthony Gill
British journalist, critic, and author
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Bill Duke
Bill Duke
American Actor
Television is an excellent training ground for a director. If you work consistently in television, as I did, you have to come in on time and on budget. What you are allowed in feature films are, fortunately, more time and a larger budget.
Bill Condon
Bill Condon
American Director
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac
American Actor
I'm a big fan of TV.
Beppe Grillo
Beppe Grillo
Italian Comedian
I threw my TV out years ago.
Benjamin Stockham
Benjamin Stockham
American Actor
I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'
Emily Rios
Emily Rios
American Actress
TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
American Screenwriter
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown
American Journalist
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
AJ Bowen
AJ Bowen
American actor and producer. (The Signal, 2007, The House of the Devil, 2009)
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
English film director, producer, and screenwriter
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash
American actress, comedian and television host
I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac
American Actor
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
English film director, producer, and screenwriter
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
English film director, producer, and screenwriter
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
We stand or fall by television.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
English film director, producer, and screenwriter
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
English film director, producer, and screenwriter
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.