Orson Bean Quotes

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

Television is not a gimmick.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

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.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.