Quotes of Video - somelinesforyou

“ They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ”

- Gene Roddenberry

“ TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. ”

- Tom Brokaw

“ It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor. ”

- Ricardo Montalban

“ I've about had it — the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy — it's an advertising medium. ”

- Robert Altman

“ If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ”

- Joey Adams

“ I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. ”

- Michael J. Fox

“ If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! ”

- Homer Simpson

“ There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ TV — chewing gum for the eyes. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion. ”

- Zhang Jie

“ The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”

- David Brinkley

“ Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. ”

- Marvin Minsky

“ I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil. ”

- Cameron Diaz

“ TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ”

- Unknown

“ So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. ”

- John Mason Brown

“ I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio. ”

- Phil Rizzuto

“ I love vegging out in front of the TV, eating pizza! ”

- Emma Bunton

“ I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. ”

- Helen Reddy

“ Television is democracy at its ugliest. ”

- Paddy Chayefsky

“ TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape. ”

- Mary Schmich

“ You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV. ”

- Nicole Kidman

“ There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man. ”

- Christopher Lehmann Haupt

“ Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. ”

- Reed Hundt

“ People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing. ”

- Kay Hutchison

“ Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end. ”

- Unknown

“ One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else. ”

- Jinx Milea

“ Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Marilyn Manson and violent video games and hyper-sexual imagery… something needs to be done. ”

- William Baldwin

“ I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. ”

- Dean Cain
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