American Television Quotes
Screens, identity, and who gets to speak.
American television shapes identity in these quotes in very different ways, one actor reflects on rare on-screen representation, another describes how deeply television and food shaped an immigrant upbringing. Related reading appears under Crazies quotes.
It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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The sharpest line here turns critical, describing television's political commentary class as repetitive and overly familiar every election cycle. See also Paul Mellon or Boil quotes.
