119 Movie Quotes about Television (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

Memorable quotes about television, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

91 I'm sorry. -Don't be sorry. How would you know, watchin' MTV all your life?

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

92 All the networks dumped us. One said we made going to the moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

93 What are those funny things sticking out of your head? -Those are our antenna. -Are you a television set?

GJohn Call as Santa Claus in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

94 How do you know this? -Jed's got cable. -Oh, Jed's got cable.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

95 You know what? You ought to write comedies for television.

Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones in Black Belt Jones (1974)

96 Now, go watch TV like a good kid.

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

97 Do you like that show? -I love that show. -That was the old days.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

98 A series about a bunch of bank-robbing guerrillas? -What are we gonna call it, The Mao Tse-Tung Hour? -Ha, ha! -Why not?

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

99 I've been telling you people since I took this job six months ago that I want angry shows. I don't want conventional programming on this network, I want counterculture. I want antiestablishment.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

100 I want a show developed based on the activities of a terrorist group.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)