Television Quotes · Page 122

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if…

— Paula Radcliffe

I will think of doing television only when I'll be looking forward to doing reality shows.

— Daisy Shah

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

— Troian Bellisario

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but…

— Max Beesley

How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is…

— Nazanin Boniadi

'Surviving Jack' was actually a really nice show that was very well-run creatively.

— Kevin Reilly

I've obviously witnessed the world of TV production, and I'm just a bit fascinated by people being a bit awful.

— Ruth Jones

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the…

— Norman Lear

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is…

— David Bowie

Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and…

— Bernard Levin

Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful…

— Johnny Carson

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try…

— Jimmy Connors

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,…

— Jean Baudrillard

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew…

— Jeffrey Bewkes

“And so we have gone back over the television we recall watching before we gave it up entirely and made a list…

— Pope Michael

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a…

— Henry Fairlie

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure,…

— Mischa Barton

'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed…

— Alex Borstein

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

— Holly Willoughby

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

— Victoria Wood

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

— Miriam Shor

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL…

— Joss Whedon

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my…

— M. Ward

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple…

— Faith Hill

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

— Sophie Turner

I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying…

— Armaan Malik

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything…

— Mary Tyler Moore

By the time the networks get through worrying about who they're gonna tick off, they wind up with nothing.

— Joe Don Baker

I am lucky to be part of a 'Kyunki.' Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television…

— Smriti Irani

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

— Ben Stein

I don't know if people say ratings don't matter... they sure as Hell matter. Like, you want to win.

— Tommaso Ciampa

I admire your use of the Food Network as a distraction from your eating disorder.

— Anonymous

I think very few shows have come into our industry and changed the tempo and the narrative of stories, and 'Once Upon…

— Dania Ramirez

Downton Abbey has taught me there was a time when British healthcare was just as horrifying as ours.

— Anonymous

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100…

— Dean Devlin

I guess the main reason for the lack of series about clergymen is the limitations their shows might face on TV.

— Mike Connors

I tested for 'Modern Family,' and I did not get it and that was tough. They were lovely and they brought me…

— Leslie Grossman

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it…

— Max Martini