Harriet Van Horne Quotes

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

I really don't go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.

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.

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

There has to be some newness in the story or, at least, some aspect of the movie. I get bored if the story is told in the same way all the time. I get bored easily.

Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.

Who can deny that it was a pleasure to watch Rob Van Dam interact with the audience and tear the house down for 30 minutes a night.

Sport on TV is so boring.

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

On weekends we try and stay around the house, have a BBQ, have friends over.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

Fights are nice because I can hang with my girlfriend and not leave the house. Shows are nice because that's how I can afford $65 pay-per-view fights and to go to Vegas and see them live.

I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow.

I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

I don't get to like-watch anything, much less hate-watch. I don't have time for that.

Some say, why will people pay for cinema when they can watch cheaper DVDs at home? But I say, everyone has a kitchen at home, yet there are still many restaurants.

We had a black and white telly in the corner of the room that had three channels. There was nothing to keep you around the house. It was a different time.

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television.

I don't like watching long, 12-round fights, they're boring.

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