Television Quotes · Page 221

When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The…

— Liam Cunningham

I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king.

— Sam Esmail

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

— Jackie Chan

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

— David Walton

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

— Colin Cunningham

One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.

— Kevin Reilly

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it…

— David Selby

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the…

— Jessica St. Clair

I got spoiled starting out in movies. It's much harder work doing TV. In a movie, they'll take two or three hours…

— Ken Wahl

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful…

— Roma Downey

Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine…

— Roy Blount, Jr

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and…

— David Suchet

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone…

— Vera Farmiga

I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to…

— Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based…

— Marc Andreessen

I don't work all day, every day on 'Rizzoli & Isles,' but I work every day. It may be a scene or…

— Bruce McGill

The fact that someone would get on national television and make disparaging comments about me because I'm simply trying to do my…

— Daniel Cameron

I force my dog to watch animal abuse commercials just to show him how good he has it.

— Anonymous

Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.

— Billy Magnussen

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

— Kevin Sorbo

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

— Jim Gaffigan

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

— Eoin Colfer

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

— Mark Feuerstein

When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died

— Yogi Berra

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television…

— David Halberstam

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of…

— Lauren Graham

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

— Laurence J. Peter

I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.

— Sarah Paulson

I had done as much as I could on radio and I was too young to die. So I went on television.

— Bob Crane

I think, with these shows, with 'Last Week Tonight,' with 'Full Frontal,' I think, as these shows have evolved, we all have…

— Wyatt Cenac

“Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.”

— John Grooters

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a…

— Norman Lear

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting…

— Spalding Gray

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

— Michelle Borth

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a…

— Cynthia Ozick

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much…

— Denis Leary

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television…

— Sherri Saum

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

— Harriet Van Horne

When my wife and I promised the rest of our lives to each other, I doubt either of us suspected that life…

— Romesh Ranganathan