Don DeLillo Quotes

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

I grew up in front of a TV.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

I'm a TV junkie.

Television and I grew up together.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Television was essentially my college.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

I'm a huge fan of television, and the reason I'm a part of the world is because I'm a fan of it.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.