Television Quotes · Page 207

If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.

— Cenk Uygur

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

— Arthur Bremer

We had brilliant writers on our shows, and I do think that 'The Two Ronnies' has stood the test of time. It…

— Ronnie Corbett

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going…

— Fran Lebowitz

When I sat down to write 'Udaariyan' I realised that I wanted to put down things that were not happening on television.

— Sargun Mehta

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can do a show with lots of storylines. You can cram it with issues. People will keep up.

— Nicholas Hammond

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to…

— Denis Leary

“Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top…

— Zadie Smith

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can…

— Barack Obama

The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like.…

— Frank Spotnitz

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.…

— John Berger

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little…

— Clark Gregg

The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your…

— Laurie Holden

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics…

— Pat Paulsen

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer…

— Eric Burns

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

— Bill Mumy

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would…

— William H. Macy

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

— Don Cornelius

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

— Taylor Momsen

“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captured after the first six months. People will soon get tired…

— Darryl F. Zanuck

I grew up watching 'The Jeffersons' and 'Good Times' as much as I watched The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in…

— Eddie Griffin

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

— Edwin Diamond

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and…

— James Van Praagh

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

— Samantha Bond

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their…

— Bethenny Frankel

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But…

— Robert Vaughn

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

— Diablo Cody

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange…

— Dov Davidoff

It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

— Bud Abbott

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

— Nina Tassler

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

— Lisa Joy

I'm not looking at anyone on television and thinking: why do I never get those parts?

— Maureen Lipman

TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.

— Randy Rainbow

“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.”

— Kent Hughes

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

— Susan Orlean

I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.

— Sara Pascoe

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

— Ridley Scott