We're busy people; we need media that's multitask-able. I want games I can play while I'm watching television. 70% of Americans are on the Internet while they watch TV. We all multitask now, and we need media to reflect that.

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums, watching television, phoning friends, doing the Telegraph crossword. Is she neglected? Is she suffering? Or does she simply understand her man?

When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.