“For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.” FilmHouseWaitingTelevisionPaintingTheaterTablesCoffeeRingsReachingServingSurvivingBrassWaiting Tables Author:Kate Walsh
“I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.” YearsHomeJobsGuyHouseWatchesTelevisionDemandListsComing HomeCereal Author:Allison Williams
“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.” WorldRealityHouseParentTelevisionGrewGrew UpMy FamilyAccidentsFarmsMy SisterBubblesDishesStorytellerFamily FarmsSmall Family Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.” TurnsHouseTelevisionFoolBunchTurn-onYellingHouse Of Commons Author:Jean Chretien
“Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist. I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.” KnowsMadeShowsJobsGuyActorsHouseBitsTelevisionTelevision ShowsWaitressLaborersAnomaliesFraming Author:Nick Offerman
“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.” YearsFirstsTwoShowsHouseFiveWeekMinutesTelevisionCostStuckLocalsEnjoyedMealsFive YearsGasTwo YearsViewersGroceries Author:Rachael Ray
“George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.” WellsSaidReasonCoursesHouseWhiteWatchesTelevisionClintonWhite HouseSatellites Author:David Letterman
“In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.” HouseWifeTelevisionDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterImpressed Author:Anthony Bourdain
“At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.” FirstsEnoughHouseCarTelevisionMomShotsTownsMy MomAgentsGuestsCleaningClean HouseSmall Places Author:Keith Coogan
“I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.” ThinkingArtImportantCountryHomeBigsHouseRoomsMiddleTelevisionKitchenCollectionsMaterialistic Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read.” TryingTurnsHouseRoomsAirTelevisionTvsConnectedHotelFlipImmuneLureHotel RoomsReceiver Author:Bill Gates
“On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.” MenWorldGivingEndsHumorFunnyFatherHouseWhiteTelevisionWhite HouseButtonsDesks Author:Billy Connolly
“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.” PeopleHouseChangeMediaTelevisionHabitInventionPlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.” WorldHouseMediaTelevisionIncludingRadioNewspapersMagazinesAround The WorldOperationsAgencyStationsControlledPublishingWireCiaPublishing HouseMagazine Publishing Author:Michael Parenti
“I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky.” I CanKidsHouseWatchesWifeTelevisionLuckyBedAffairMy WifeCardsCouchesSo LuckyHouse Of Cards Author:Scott Foley
“I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.” PeopleThinkingWellsTodayHouseFunHeardTelevisionFoolBoastFashionableSnobbishEggheads Author:Bennett Cerf
“I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.” PeopleHomeHouseTelevisionProgramBlameSellingKitchenBuyingCrazinessBuying A House Author:Barbara Hulanicki
“Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?” PeopleIfsKnowsWould BeHouseWatchesKnow HowTelevisionSuicideRateBoatDo You KnowLove Boat Author:Aaron Spelling
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesArtRealFactsShowsLastsHouseChallengesTakenSawsWrittenTelevisionTinyLast YearAnimationAvengers Author:Jeph Loeb
“I do think this is where television is going, and I think that it's awesome to be a part of a show like this because we are these pioneers into this new medium. And it's working. When you look at the success of House of Cards and Arrested Development, which I love, this is how people are watching television now. It's pretty cool to be a part of this whole thing.” PeopleThinkingLooksWholeShowsHouseTelevisionDevelopmentMediumsCardsArrestedPioneersWatching TelevisionHouse Of Cards Author:Laura Prepon
“Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.” PeopleWantHouseRoomsWatchesTelevisionLiving Room Author:Groucho Marx
“Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.” GivingChildrenWarHouseTelevisionGive MeIraqBillionsIraq WarPbs Author:Jon Stewart
“I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.” PeopleImportantPlayBigsHouseLanguageExistenceTalkingFireTelevisionGrewGrew UpLaughterBarsEveningTeenagerTease Author:Dylan Moran
“Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.” WorldSaidProblemSchoolHousePoorStreetsTelevisionDependsCleanExpensivePrivate SectorFilthyAffluentPublic SectorClean House Author:John Kenneth Galbraith