Dennis Farina Quotes

Television is intensely personal.

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

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Entertainment and information work well together.

Television and I grew up together.

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

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I liked television, and television liked me.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

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

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

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

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

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

Television was essentially my college.