Television Quotes · Page 199

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite…

— Carl Sagan

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

— Rainn Wilson

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as…

— Neil Warnock

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

— Chris March

“Just because I'm outnumbered doesn't mean I'm wrong, does it?' Tom Goode from UK TV series 'The Good Life' 1970's”

— Esmonde and Larbey

I imagine when you're making a reality show with a whole crew, it's bound to get complicated.

— Erin Foster

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish…

— Chris O'Dowd

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do…

— Conan O'Brien

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of…

— Lee Siegel

There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an…

— Timothy Hutton

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.…

— Todd Phillips

That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga,…

— Brent Spiner

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of…

— Steven Bochco

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending…

— David E. Kelley

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager…

— Amitabh Bachchan

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So,…

— John Tesh

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

— Rebecca Romijn

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

— Carson Daly

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

— John Hodgman

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

— Jose Andres

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time.

— Ser'Darius Blain

I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did…

— Brian Tyree Henry

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

— Sam Neill

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Sometimes when things don't go to plan it makes the best telly. Our audiences love it when things go wrong.

— Michaela Strachan

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness…

— Hodding Carter

You need to understand that for television, you need to be on your toes constantly. There are so many episodes.

— Zayed Khan

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

— Donny Osmond

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

— Michael Learned

I started taking my dance seriously and I have been choreographing for corporate and television shows.

— Atul Kulkarni

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

— Robert Carlyle

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles,…

— Jon Hamm

Anytime you're lucky enough to be on something that lasts longer than half a season, you never quite know what kind of…

— James Roday

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

— Alan Ruck

In the 1950s, when there was nothing else on television but the United Nations, I would sit down and imitate every darned…

— James Doohan

I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.

— Joe Morton

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

— Kiefer Sutherland

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

— Alber Elbaz

You never know, especially on episodic television, you just don't know week to week what's going to happen.

— Carrie-Anne Moss