On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
When I was growing up, I used to love television. TV was everything. And it was a real connector for my family.
I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
I have so much to thank reality TV for.
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
We've sussed that we've paid all this money to watch ourselves entertain ourselves. We have more members of the public on TV than on C&A's CCTV.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television
Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.
People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
I like the mad and neurotic pace of television.
I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
TV is the rat race of the century.
I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.
The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn't want to go back to Ireland with my mother. I was doing my A-levels, and my friends would come over and watch 'Twin Peaks.'
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?
We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.
Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
