Television Quotes · Page 187

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

— Andy Kindler

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

— Pete Holmes

I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I…

— Andy Kindler

With '24: Legacy,' there are a lot of people who are super-excited about the show. But there are a lot of people…

— Corey Hawkins

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

— Eddie Griffin

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Emmerdale' is a great place to work and I genuinely wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be.

— Kelvin Fletcher

In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly…

— Cary Fukunaga

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six…

— Jane Wagner

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything…

— Frederic Raphael

I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took…

— Justin Vernon

If I write a cop show, it's not up to me to decide how different it is from 'Law & Order.' I…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone…

— Michelle Dockery

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real…

— John Lahr

I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon.…

— Michael Weatherly

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes the most incredible shows don't do well because they're ahead of their time or people just don't get into it quickly…

— Fiona Gubelmann

Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.

— Justin Simien

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

— Jaclyn Smith

The BBC is in many ways wonderful, but it is not good at recognising when a programme has come to the end…

— David Starkey

I don't want to roll the dice of trying to lift a professional dancer on television. The BBC don't need that insurance…

— Alex Brooker

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things…

— Lorne Greene

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you…

— Aaron Sorkin

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to…

— John Hawkes

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host…

— Queen Latifah

I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in…

— Wendy Liebman

Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.

— Scottie Pippen

Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it…

— Karrueche Tran

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

— Sutton Foster

In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as…

— Rachel Riley

When I was a kid, I would turn on the television as soon as I got home from school.

— James Holzhauer

WWE is so huge, and they have to crank out so many hours of television, so they don't have time to take…

— John Morrison

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

— Boris Johnson

I started my career with 'Teen Diva,' and that helped me learn anchoring. Fortunately, I got work after the show ended.

— Rhea Chakraborty

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then…

— Jaime Camil

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

— Bill Burr

My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

— Mauro Ranallo

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to…

— Robert Knepper