You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.
I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.
I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?
If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.
Reality TV rots people's brains.
The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.
When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.
I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.
Too much TV hurts movies.
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.
Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.
