Fred Allen Quotes

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television is intensely personal.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

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

Television and I grew up together.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

Television has power.

I liked television, and television liked me.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Entertainment and information work well together.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

Television has supplanted people as the only audience that campaigners are interested in.