Milly Shapiro Quotes

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

I, for one, believe TV is something you can do without - it colours the way you look at things and people. It's not the best exposure for children, growing up.

I agree when people say TV is regressive. I would go back to TV only for the money.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

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

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.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.