Television Quotes · Page 149

I think no one would dispute that 'Chopped' is a highly athletic television show.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour -…

— Sterling K. Brown

You can't put a show in a boring format to young kids. They need to relate to it.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better…

— Michael Douglas

Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.

— Anonymous

There's a degree to which leaving an afternoon show to go to America to present telly is borderline delusional.

— Richard Bacon

Having traders elbow you while you are doing live TV is a good education in something.

— Margaret Brennan

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

— David Duchovny

The fact of the matter is that I grew up during the course of the show. I started when I was 24…

— Gillian Anderson

Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word 'landmark' a bit too readily. I have been involved…

— David Olusoga

I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but…

— Shane Black

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our…

— Sandra Cisneros

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that…

— Bruno Heller

There are so many reality shows, but there's none that really shows the island life and what influencers are in the islands.…

— Bretman Rock

I was a big fan of the show 'Deadwood' on HBO, which was created by David Milch. And as soon as I…

— Terence Winter

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an…

— Danny Pino

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

— John Cleese

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

— Michael Emerson

I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious…

— Mary H.K. Choi

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

— Lexi Underwood

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

— Lee Hazlewood

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

— Dan Rather

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

— Christina Ricci

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure…

— Valentina Tereshkova

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

— Marianne Williamson

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

— Zosia Mamet

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run,…

— Robert Greenblatt

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I…

— David Mandel

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in…

— Marc Webb

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and…

— Rhys Darby

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope…

— Harrison Ford

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

— Josh Gad

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or…

— Madchen Amick

I do have a rule about how much I will take on - the last thing you want is to be on…

— Phillip Schofield

“It's hard to start a revolution when your face is six feet from your television.”

— Grant Peeples

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

— Nolan North

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white…

— Ryan Murphy

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every…

— Tyler Christopher