Bill Bryson Quotes

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

I suppose that I'm easily bored.

I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.

I can't think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I've already lost interest in.

Live TV is no joke.

I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

I do love TV as a medium.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

Hosting a game show is quite interactive and non-fictional shows are a part of entertainment.

Creative freedom on television is very limited and I get bored very easily.

There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.