I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
Shania Twain

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Jimmy Buffett

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
David Icke

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock

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.
Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore Vidal

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Gore Vidal

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett