Television Quotes · Page 121

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

— Silvio Scaglia

I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.

— Geeta Phogat

The only reality show I'd probably take part in would be 'The Amazing Race.' Reality shows are fun to watch. Very tiring…

— Dino Morea

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

— Graham Norton

I watch a variety of shows. I love 'Veep,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Girls,' 'Mad Men,' 'Game of Thrones' and fun shows like…

— Lindsey Morgan

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

— Hari Sreenivasan

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

— Van Heflin

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

— Bo Burnham

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more…

— Alan Taylor

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with…

— Chris Harrison

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city…

— Anthony Gregory

David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call…

— Ishmael Reed

Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you…

— Ronald D. Moore

I'll say, 'I really like Daenerys,' and then I go, 'Wait, but I like the Stark theme, too, and I like the…

— Ramin Djawadi

For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and…

— Mr. T

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the…

— Tim Heidecker

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

— Will McDonough

I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.

— Justin Simien

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think if people want to go back and look at season two of 'True Blood,' I'm proud of my work in…

— Ashley Jones

The only TV show that I've been in that my uncle gives me recognition for is 'Doctor Who.'

— Ashley Walters

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

— Ashish Sharma

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper…

— Matt Bomer

I'm shocked by how many young people get their news from The Daily Show and proud to say I get mine from…

— Anonymous

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

— Madonna Ciccone

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

— Zooey Deschanel

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it…

— Jon Richardson

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do fiction on TV. I might as well open a shop.

— Sunil Grover

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

— Eli Roth

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

— Robin Day

I don't have anything against TV shows. It's just that I can't see myself doing the 12 hour shift of a TV serial.

— Rahul Vaidya

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.

— Michael Storm

What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's…

— Ramin Djawadi

Sometimes losing a series regular, if you're going to replace them with another series regular, that will put added pressure on your…

— Aaron Korsh

All TV production companies and channels, not just the BBC, know that drama is what they can sell internationally to bring money…

— Paul Whitehouse

Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel…

— Michael K. Williams

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're…

— Katey Sagal