#television

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#commercials #give #haven #help #murder

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#contributing #done #information #much #need

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#button #everytime #like #pops #push

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ↗

— Lena Horne

#belongs #brave #clubs #exceptions #few

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#doubt #houston #i #me #next

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#film #i #lot #quickly #stage

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ↗

— John Lennon

#demanded #everyone #instead #peace #set

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#writing #love

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. ↗

— Emily Watson

#entertained #grew #i #lots #meant