Television Quotes · Page 165

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

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

— Jeff Daniels

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

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

— Rupert Friend

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

— Sterling K. Brown

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

— Alex Guarnaschelli

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

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to…

— Adam Schiff

I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would…

— D. B. Weiss

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead,…

— Kathy Baker

TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are…

— Jill McDonald

I totally understand the promotional aspect of our show and the business end of it. We're putting something out there that we're…

— Angie Harmon

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell,…

— Ted Cruz

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a…

— David Chase

We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these…

— Riccardo Tisci

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

— Richard Bacon

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

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Douglas

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

— Margaret Brennan

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

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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

— David Duchovny

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

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

— Michael Emerson

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

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

— Lexi Underwood

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

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

— Lee Hazlewood

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

— Valentina Tereshkova

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

— Christina Ricci

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

— Marc Webb

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

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

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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Josh Gad

[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

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

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

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

— Grant Peeples