Quotes About Watching Too Much Television

#1. There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.

Rocco Landesman

#2. Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Sherman Alexie

#4. McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Pauline Kael

#5. My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Kate Bush

#6. Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

Neil Postman

#7. My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

Anna Torv

#8. I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Hideki Matsui

#9. I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner

#10. I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

Jerry Lewis

#11. More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

Evan Spiegel

#12. So, I come here to check on you and low and behold you're here. I wasted an entire night in Miranda's backyard when I could've been ratting food in your kitchen and watching the bad ass Chuck Bass on the television screen.

Abbi Glines

#13. People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Chaz Bono

#14. Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

#15. Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Maury Povich

#16. I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

Patricia Richardson

#17. Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

Pete Hamill

#18. We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Dave Haywood

#19. I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse

#20. Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

David Niven

#21. I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.

Charles Dance

#22. I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

Rick Alverson

#23. I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled first, and then it would happen to me in real life, and I felt prepared.

Bresha Webb

#24. If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Norm MacDonald

#25. I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

Terry Gilliam

#26. My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Trey Parker

#27. Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

Ludacris

#28. It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority.
An experience outside culture.

William Gibson

#29. If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Jay Chiat

#30. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Steven Spielberg

#31. You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Jason Marsden

#32. Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

Muhammad Ali

#33. I learned how to speak English watching television.

Azita Ghanizada

#34. I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.

Richard Rodriguez

#35. In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

John Green

#36. You have a time machine and you use it for ... watching television?"
"Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder.

Douglas Adams

#37. I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Robert Osborne

#38. It was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#39. Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

Jacki Weaver

#40. As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Cartwright