Television Quotes · Page 211

I love doing children's TV. You get such extraordinarily positive feedback from your audience too.

— Alexander Armstrong

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

— Anna Torv

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good…

— Alex Gansa

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you…

— Corey Stoll

In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before…we needed a hit.

— Lauren Zalaznick

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

— Peter Ustinov

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like,…

— Julian Cope

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

— Roddy McDowall

Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's…

— Kerris Dorsey

One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously…

— Dylan Walsh

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the…

— Aasif Mandvi

Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of…

— Keiko Agena

Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long…

— Alfred Gough

Consider yourself lucky to see a legend before the prime, a killer before the crime, a BIG before the Dime. Greet me…

— Big Sean

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we…

— Diane Ackerman

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed…

— Elaine Stritch

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

— Lisa Leslie

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

— Kristen Schaal

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

— Joss Whedon

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been…

— Bear Grylls

I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.

— James May

Shows should just be able to be shows without hyphenating their lead characters.

— George Lopez

One of the interesting things about making a kids TV show is that you are in living rooms all across the world…

— Alex Hirsch

There are more important things in life than Facebook and Twitter, like watching TV, and taking naps!

— Anonymous

I don't spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming…

— Sunil Chhetri

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

— Janet McTeer

I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll…

— Julie Benz

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

— James Spader

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market…

— Gavyn Davies

There is no point in appearing in just a few episodes. If I do a show on television, it won't be for…

— Arbaaz Khan

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

— Tom Shales

It's been two years since I am off television, but I am constantly being offered roles for TV projects. People from the…

— Abhinav Shukla

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

— Shemar Moore

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

— Erin Foster

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be…

— Robert Covington

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and…

— James L. Brooks

Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

— Alex Hirsch

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to…

— Benjamin Bratt

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama…

— Jerry Springer

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV…

— Pauline Kael