Television Quotes · Page 148

You have to be your own biggest fan. I don't think you're able to go on auditions and write pilots without fully…

— Megan Stalter

'Survivor' is one of CBS's signature series and symbol of enduring quality and entertainment on prime time television.

— Nina Tassler

I thought I was going to do some cult, cool, late-night interviewing thing on BBC2. But everyone kept saying: 'No, Michael, you're…

— Michael McIntyre

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging…

— Douglas Coupland

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

— Rupert Murdoch

If we want to be considered among the shows that are worth watching, it's got to be really good. Ultimately, that's all…

— Tommy Dewey

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series…

— Todd Haynes

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

— Amy Poehler

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I…

— Steve Harvey

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of…

— Alice Lowe

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good,…

— John Ridley

The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like…

— James Spader

“Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had…

— Nick Stahl

The production companies and some of the networks reached out as well. I don't really know what triggered it, but I think…

— Mike Stud

We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing…

— Lennie James

I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.

— Hari Nef

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still…

— Jeff Zucker

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

— Rupert Murdoch

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels…

— Gabourey Sidibe

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will…

— Harry Shearer

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

— Oliver Stone

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

— Bill Mumy

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

— Michael Portillo

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

— Christiane Amanpour

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you…

— David Duchovny

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

— Ken Stott

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

— Daryl Hannah

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what…

— Chris Harrison

Television often cannot cover the passing of the torch without fanning the flames in the process.

— Martin Schram

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

— Dries van Noten

I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.

— Gemma Collins

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

— Daniel Tosh

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used…

— Jeff Daniels

We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about…

— Rupert Friend

Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey