Television Quotes · Page 151

When you have a guest role, it's like being dropped into a show out of a helicopter.

— Susan Blommaert

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.

— Michael Brandt

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature…

— Marc Cherry

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

— Lea Thompson

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

— James Badge Dale

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You…

— Sasha Alexander

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

— Molly Ivins

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days…

— Michelle Borth

I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well…

— Steve Howey

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was…

— Brian d'Arcy James

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have]…

— John McCain

I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word…

— Emily V. Gordon

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On…

— Erik Wemple

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages…

— Neil Postman

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the…

— Esai Morales

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making…

— Abigail Breslin

So many of the kids on television have really nice clothes, perfect skin and hair.

— Gia Coppola

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

— Warren Littlefield

The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other -…

— Cat Deeley

When 'Firefly' was canceled, we had just a few other places to shop it to - to take it over... And all…

— Alan Tudyk

Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

— Eric Sykes

“I should create a TV show called 61 Minutes. It’ll be like 60 Minutes—only more.”

— Jarod Kintz

There's no money in television, but TV provides the wherewithal to get the dollars for live performances.

— Nipsey Russell

Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an…

— Zach Woods

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron…

— Joss Whedon

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

— Barry Levinson

When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

— Krysten Ritter

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

— Anjelica Huston

Sitcoms are fun. The whole multi-cam genre is always a lot of fun. You throw a live audience in the mix, and…

— Jason Priestley

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's…

— Dominic West

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously,…

— James Purefoy

I'm not chasing reality shows. Viewers want to see me and producers want me on their shows.

— Rakhi Sawant

One of the things that I wanted to do post-'Haven' is go after some shows I was a fan of already, and…

— Edge

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

— Amber Nash

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of…

— Laura Marano

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

— Nina Tassler

I don't view the web as any other secondary medium to television or film - I just think it's another avenue.

— Bear McCreary

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

— Paul Fussell

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and…

— Nadine Gordimer