Television Quotes · Page 134

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

— Joel Grey

TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end.…

— Karan Singh Grover

I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change…

— Dustin Diamond

In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show…

— Michael Connelly

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

How long can you gloss everything over and give people the idea that life is a sitcom?

— Patti D'Arbanville

After my extended hiatus I found myself at the age of 36 and knew the TV route could get me back out…

— Jeff Gutt

I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

— Lee Grant

I love playing the stuff with McGee at home with Delilah. We've had episodes where it shows them at home arguing over…

— Sean Murray

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the…

— Terry Gilliam

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if…

— Jojo Moyes

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see…

— David Cassidy

Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to…

— Ricky Schroder

The original concept for JTV was that we would give people a window into other people's lives. The problem is that if…

— Justin Kan

I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche.…

— Miles Millar

To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show.…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies,…

— Ranjeet

One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.

— Emilia Clarke

“(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity”

— Tina Fey

Not being part of the BBC with 'Top Gear' any more does pain me, because it's an organisation I approve of.

— James May

It's the maddest thing, watching old shows, like getting your family album out and flicking through.

— Dave Myers

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those…

— Joss Whedon

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

— Martha Plimpton

I enjoyed 'Roswell' a lot, and I had a lot of fun playing Jim Valenti. I had never done a show that…

— William Sadler

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

— Michael Horse

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

— Jim Beaver

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

— Lisa Joy

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from…

— Eric Bana

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or…

— Bruce Nash

It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your…

— Noah Hawley

Our goal is to focus on the unique points of view of our show creators but make shows that have broad appeal.

— Channing Dungey

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

— James MacArthur

“TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on…

— Ryu Murakami

“multi-screen world of ad-wary consumers has rendered Don Draper’s big budget brainwashing useless to all but the biggest brands.”

— Nir Eyal

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

— Logan Lerman

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

— Bruce Forsyth

The show is not really about finding love in Silicon Valley, and it never really claimed be so.

— Thomas Middleditch

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big…

— Will McDonough

'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.

— Julie Plec

I always wanted to have 'Bad Boys' on TV. 'Common Law' is reminiscent of my youth.

— Michael Ealy