Television Quotes · Page 189

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in…

— Aeriel Miranda

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

— Judd Apatow

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

— Ellen Pompeo

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

— Ruud Gullit

I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the…

— Kevin Spacey

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

— Hank Stuever

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their…

— Bill Bryson

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all…

— Tyler Perry

It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching…

— Pilou Asbaek

The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an…

— Frank Zappa

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing…

— David Fincher

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has…

— Tom Clancy

Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of…

— Linda Blair

George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think…

— Robert Scheer

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt…

— John Dickerson

I had worked in TV prior to working on 'Game of Thrones' - 'Game of Thrones' is far more cinematic than any…

— Rose Leslie

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of…

— David E. Kelley

When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.

— Joe Rogan

TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can.

— Juliette Lewis

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every…

— Dolly Parton

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

— Nick Rhodes

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest…

— Matthew Lillard

I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

— Zach Anner

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

— Gates McFadden

I wonder if Jersey Shore is making Italian-Americans long for the days of only being stereotyped as members of murderous crime syndicates.

— Anonymous

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

— Mathew Baynton

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

— Steve Burns

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes… TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

— John Mason Brown

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

— Jodi Balfour

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I…

— Miles Teller

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe…

— D. B. Sweeney

The full house team met this year to talk about making full house aired in 2014 as a sequel :)

— Anonymous

The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

— Jean Smart

PATRICK JANE: It's nice to be nice. But if you want to get ahead in life, sometimes you have to be a…

— The Mentalist

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

— Kevin Spacey

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called 'A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten…

— Dave Barry

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to…

— Billy Wilder

My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years.…

— SZA

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

— Marya Mannes