Television Quotes · Page 205

The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through…

— Derren Brown

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

— Dan Povenmire

The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.

— Natasha Rothwell

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

— Ted Shackelford

“Violence - the kind you see on television - is not honestly violent, there lies its harm.”

— William Strunk Jr

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

— Alfred Hitchcock

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

— Stephen Hough

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

— John Mahoney

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's…

— Zadie Smith

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and…

— Tatiana Maslany

Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do…

— Zooey Deschanel

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational…

— Kenneth Keniston

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the…

— Prabal Gurung

Reality shows are for reality stars. Celebrities do, maybe, Dancing With The Stars, maybe they might do Celebrity Wife Swap, but dealing…

— Jackee Harry

In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and…

— Stephen Root

If I was applying for a legal position, I would highlight my experience working for the San Francisco-L.A. DA's office, and I…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

The 'Housewives' has helped me find my voice. I was always a people-pleaser, and coming into a show like this, you end…

— Kyle Richards

I have never feared of being typecast as I tried to do different roles on television.

— Kiku Sharda

I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.

— Martine Syms

For the first time I watched Big Bang Theory. Loved it! ¨But what's it come to when I need a dictionary to…

— Jaimie Fayt

It was this really bizarre video idea, this animated Power Ranger-y thing. I said, 'This is not right. If you want me…

— Britney Spears

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

— Dan Harmon

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

— Yeardley Smith

There's generally a couple of months' gap between shows. And I am rather glad it's been that way because I am a…

— Sriti Jha

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you…

— Chelsea Peretti

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

— Nick Hornby

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

— Joe Calzaghe

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak…

— Richard M. Nixon

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

— BD Wong

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even…

— Jeffrey Tambor

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

— Jack Valenti

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

— Evan Spiegel

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

— Stephen Chbosky

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

— David Shuster

When television emerged, it opened up many avenues for actors like me, but after a point, it also became very limiting.

— Soni Razdan

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

— Michael Ramsey

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

— George Meyer