Television Quotes · Page 177

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

— Stephen Fry

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and…

— James Garner

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow…

— William Devane

It's normal when there's a new show on the air to say this is the new 'Game of Thrones' or this is…

— Alexander Dreymon

it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your…

— T. J. MacGregor

Shouting on TV feels like it almost gives viewers licence to do it in real life.

— Ainsley Harriott

My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can…

— Nathan Kress

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

— Ioan Gruffudd

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People…

— Margaret Atwood

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in…

— Trisha Goddard

Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on…

— Patton Oswalt

I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it…

— Vicki Lawrence

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or…

— Paul Auster

I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a…

— David Bianculli

People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there…

— Grant Shapps

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

— Barbara Feldon

“Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art.” They walked on. “I think that already happened, back home,”

— William Gibson

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

— Joe Pantoliano

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

— Ralph H. Baer

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only…

— Rufus Sewell

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best…

— Dennis Farina

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'

— Greg Kinnear

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see…

— Hannah Simone

“New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying, "You either love me or you hate me." There's actually a third…

— Bill Maher

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

— Roger Ailes

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills…

— Rodney Atkins

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

— Matt Stone

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

— Jerry Lewis

I'd hope that when Channel 4 started, 'The Last Leg' was the kind of show it wanted to be putting out. I…

— Josh Widdicombe

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

— Amy Ryan

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and…

— Scott Aukerman

I love how me deciding to not continue doing 'LA Ink' turns into being 'cancelled.'

— Kat Von D

I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.

— Matt Skiba

It is very difficult to make something like slice-of-life interesting. I don't think many people have done the slice-of-life dramas as good…

— Rasika Dugal

I hadn't planned on being on TV. It wasn't something I had planned my whole life.

— Brian Quinn

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

— Debbie Allen

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change…

— Roger Ailes

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

— Rob Thomas