Television Quotes · Page 143

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

— Martin Freeman

If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will…

— Julie Plec

I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted…

— Sam Elliott

Twenty years is a long time and it's been an incredible 20 years. I'm so grateful to 'Emmerdale' for what they have…

— Kelvin Fletcher

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

— Anna Kendrick

I always thought, 'TV is very specific and I'm not really into that.' I was a bit too arrogant on that front.

— Stacy Martin

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.

— Gillian Jacobs

'Power' is Andy Bean's first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!

— Lela Loren

I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for…

— Allison Williams

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives…

— Marianne Williamson

The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of…

— Julie Plec

I love 'Sons of Anarchy.' I was so excited to be able to be on this show, just because I personally watch…

— Ashley Tisdale

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and…

— Campbell Scott

Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back…

— Jimmy Buffett

In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV,…

— Frans van Houten

The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental…

— Rob Brezsny

If it's possible, I binge. There are other shows, like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' I watch and have to wait…

— Aziz Ansari

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the…

— Neil Cavuto

The original 'Dynasty' was fantastic, and no matter what you do, some of that diamond is going to sparkle through. We're just…

— Sallie Patrick

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene…

— Harold MacMillan

I've been moved around my whole life and it's been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on…

— Goldie

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

— Jeff Garlin

I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles…

— Michael Emerson

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like…

— Quentin Blake

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

— Juan Gabriel

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

— Jessy Schram

I have loved doing reality TV and don't regret any of it. I just hated all the trolling. It is also hard…

— Zara McDermott

But I don't think TV will face any threats from web series. Every medium has it's own audience.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

One thing 'Game of Thrones' has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.

— Julia Gillard

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a…

— Colin Donnell

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It…

— Vivienne Westwood

I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

— Denis O'Hare

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have…

— Thalia

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

— Bob Newhart

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

— Kevin Sorbo

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

— Marc Almond

I've been hopping around in sitcom land. I did an episode of 'Roseanne,' 'Family 'Ties' and 'Who's the Boss.'

— Christina Pickles

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

— Sherry Stringfield

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I…

— Artie Lange

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

— Clive James