Television Quotes · Page 198

Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.

— Shannen Doherty

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a…

— Chris Lilley

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

— Groucho Marx

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or…

— Ross Butler

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

— Joel Hodgson

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance…

— Julia Quinn

I think, if I hadn't grown as an actor, I wouldn't have been offered television, let alone films.

— Milind Soman

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

— Jay Leno

The only difference in reality TV and the other TV is that the scriptwriters for reality TV are not union. I have…

— Rush Limbaugh

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia,…

— Larry Hagman

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in…

— Grant Bowler

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but,…

— Michael B. Jordan

Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar…

— Pat Condell

“Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even…

— Neil Postman

I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I…

— Lewis Black

“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control…

— R. Kent Hughes

No one was more surprised than me by the success of the first series of 'Line of Duty.'

— Jed Mercurio

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

— Bobby Kotick

I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base,…

— Jay R. Ferguson

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

— Todd McFarlane

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the…

— Adam Carolla

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very…

— Bryan Fuller

That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you dont know what to do with your life anymore.

— Ridwan Oladapo

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything.…

— Ari Graynor

At one point, I was getting online abuse and it made me think that I didn't want to do TV again.

— Alex Brooker

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

— Steve Buscemi

I don't even turn a computer on all year unless it's to watch 'Celebrity Big Brother!'

— Jonathan Cheban

I'm not complaining, but in a perfect world, we could just watch reality TV all day long.

— Spencer Pratt

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends'…

— Clemence Poesy

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best,…

— Ann B. Davis

When I was youn,g I always saw Brazil winning games on television with fantastic players and a fantastic team.

— David Luiz

You make shows, and you don't go into it thinking, 'Our show's going to be number one'; you go into it hoping…

— Charlie Murphy

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

— Peter Dinklage

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

— Courtney A. Kemp

The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

— Bill Maher

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

— Tony Goldwyn

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

— Nancy Marchand

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie