Television quotes
306 television quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Man of the Year
“TV puts everybody in those boxes, side-by-side. On one side, there's this certifiable lunatic who says the Holocaust never happened. And next to him is this noted, honored historian who knows all about the Holocaust. And now, there they sit, side-by-side, they look like equals! Everything they say seems to be credible. And so, as it goes on,...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Edward Scissorhands
“- Host-TV: Quite a story, yes? Any questions for Edward? Yeah, get way over. Stand right up.
- Audience Member #1: What's been the best part of your new life here in town?
- Edward: The friends I made.
- Host-TV: Any other questions?
- Audience Member #2: Have you ever thought of having corrective surgery or prosthetics? I know a doctor that...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Matilda
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.”
- From the movie: Secondhand Lions
“- Walter: Is it okay if I go inside and watch television?
- Garth: Ain't got one.
- Walter: No television?” - From the movie: Mr. Deeds
“I watch the stock market channel all the time... I just watch because I suspect that anchor man of being an evil leprechaun... he can bullshit everybody else, but he ain't fooling me.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
- From the movie: Videodrome
“The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
- From the movie: The Dish
“- May McIntyre: Do the people in India get to watch it?
- Mayor Bob McIntyre: Yeah, but all on the one telly.” - From the movie: Used Cars
“- Al's Kid: Hey, look. Bare tits!
- Al's Wife: That's disgusting! Oh, I don't want my children to see this!” - From the movie: Quiz Show
“I thought we were gonna get television. The truth is... television is gonna get us.”
- From the movie: Wild America
“- Sarah: [gesturing her body in a sexy behavior] Devonshire cream: the creamiest cream.
- Mark: They paid you for that?
- Sarah: It's not so easy. You try it with a camera in your face, and a cow sniffing around your bum.” - From the movie: Room
- From the movie: Matilda
“There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.”
“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.”
- From the movie: Happy Gilmore
- Happy Gilmore: I'd love to punch that guy in the face right now. But I can't, you know, because I'd get in trouble. I bet you get a lot of that on "Let's Make A Deal".
- Bob Barker: It's "The Price Is Right", Happy.
- Happy Gilmore: Oh, yeah. Sorry. - From the movie: Matilda
- From the TV Series: Jane the Virgin
“If you knew anything about telenovelas, you’d know that everything is supposed to be dramatic!”
- From the movie: The Hand of God
“Fabietto Schisa-Why don't we buy a TV with a remote like everyone else?
Saverio Schisa-Don't talk nonsense. I'm a communist.” - From the animation: The Simpsons
“Nothing you say can upset us. We're the MTV generation.”
- From the animation: The Simpsons
“Bart-TV sucks.
Homer-I know you're upset right now, so I'll pretend you didn't say that.” - From the animation: The Simpsons
- From the movie: Death to 2020
“Some say The Crown is unrealistic, but it strikes me as a far more faithful depiction of the monarchy than their other regal drama, Tiger King.”
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