Words matter. These are the best Watching Tv Quotes from famous people such as Shobana, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Sam Esmail, Megan Abbott, Jonny Greenwood, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I unwind by watching TV, which is also how I wind.
When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
That’s what I did growing up. Other than being on the computer, I was watching TV and movies. I make no apologies.
I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don’t think writing TV has.
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They’d come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I’ve got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don’t sit around watching TV all the time.
Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities – spending time in bed, watching TV – while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
I don’t physically enjoy watching TV. I don’t enjoy the commercials.
The competitive landscape for us is very broad. We see ourselves in the entertainment space. We compete with listening to the radio. We compete with watching TV. We compete with social networks.
I don’t think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
I remember watching TV as a kid, and whenever there was some sort of jeopardy involving the hero, I could reassure myself that they were what I’d call a ‘can’t-die’ character, so everything would be OK.
What does good in bed mean to me? When I’m sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup – that’s good in bed.
When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, ‘Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.’
I’m a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
When you’ve grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard – you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there’s no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.
I left Disney in 2000 because I thought that the process of watching TV was really going to change, and the process of creating it and the business model had to change, too.
I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there’s so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.
Digital presentation is just television in public; we’re all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
The family on my mom’s side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He’s a pitchman, so if you’re ever watching TV late at night, you’ll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.
Sometimes, when I’m just watching TV at home, I cut some aloe vera leaves and use the inside gel part as a mask. It’s incredible how much comes out of every cut – you can just do a little slice. I buy the leaves at health food stores. You can get single whole leaves, and they kind of last you forever.
It’s humbling being at home just chilling, watching TV, playing with the kids.
Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.
The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son’s age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable.
I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.
I was watching TV once, and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ comes on, and I’m like, ‘What is this?’ I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, ‘This is what I want to do. That’s what I want to be. That’s for me. That’s it!’
Reagan didn’t socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can’t condescend.
I am so not hooked into watching TV or listening to the radio, to be honest. Usually, when I do, I get angry.
People are a lot more tolerant when they’re home watching TV and they’re looking for a laugh.
I like staying home at night and just watching TV and playing with my two puppies. I really do love the simple things.
So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
People work hard all week at their jobs. I want people watching TV to have a good time.
I love watching TV, I probably spend too much time on my phone, but it’s probably not very good for your mental health is it? It indulges some of your worst personality traits, like staring at other people’s lives on Instagram for hours on end.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
We’ve observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn’t there, even for reading a book with them or watching TV or tucking my daughter into bed.
For me, a very chilled out day would be me on my couch or cooking, sitting with one or two friends watching TV or films over a glass of wine.
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
I love watching TV.
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
It’s hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I’m not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It’s just how we consume and where we consume it that’s changing.
I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I’d lived alone, and I had an epiphany while I was spending a lot of time watching TV and decided I wanted try acting.
I understand that more and more children under the age of 10 go to bed without having something read to them or reading something themselves. Instead, there are more and more TVs in children’s bedrooms and they are going to sleep watching TV.
Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn’t see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.
I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin’.
I guess my perfect day would be relaxing with my wife somewhere peaceful and secluded, or just lounging on the couch and watching TV.
I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
My mom brought me up by herself, so I was a latchkey kid. I would walk myself back from school and spent a lot of time at home alone, watching TV. There weren’t a lot of Latinas – or any women of color. And the ones I saw were usually presented as stereotypes or treated like jokes.
It’s the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.
It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.
At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, ‘Go for it.’ When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off.
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