Television Quotes · Page 172

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

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

— Sherry Stringfield

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

— Clive James

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

— Artie Lange

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is…

— Terence McKenna

If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.

— Chris Chibnall

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally…

— Eric Balfour

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's…

— Kris Holden-Ried

Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the…

— Kelly Cutrone

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett,…

— A. A. Gill

I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television,…

— Cilla Black

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I…

— Gene Roddenberry

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,…

— Marie Winn

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any…

— David Foster Wallace

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that…

— Christine O'Donnell

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It…

— Michael Giacchino

Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.

— Cenk Uygur

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

— Charles Grodin

You remind me of the black guy on The Office, because you're the black guy in our office.

— Anonymous

I personally like sitcom TV to be able to portray characters that I can relate to.

— Dania Ramirez

That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a…

— Matt Duffer

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves…

— Anonymous

They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.

— Mike Connors

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven…

— Kevin Spacey

I'm home watching Sopranos re-runs on A&E. Not the same with out the cussing or sex. Just saying :p

— Gabriel Iglesias

I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back…

— Sean Hayes

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

— Idris Elba

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

— Dean Smith

I think that 'Full House' is just a feel-good show. It's not meant to be anything more than just a little silly,…

— Lori Loughlin

I can strongly say with conviction that as far as being on a TV show that documents my love life of any…

— Nick Viall

The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Good Wife' at network - is…

— Todd Haynes

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

— Amy Hill

I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.

— Jason O'Mara

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

— Stephanie Cutter

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

— Stephen Lang

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw…

— Dan Santat

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

— Gina Bellman