Television Quotes · Page 225

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

— Dan Harmon

I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

— Dave Attell

I used to watch 'Hollyoaks' before I joined the show, and I always loved the McQueens. To be part of that now…

— Mandip Gill

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

— A'Lelia Bundles

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or…

— Miranda Otto

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

— Henry Golding

I'm not of the ilk that there's something immoral about doing an unfunny sitcom - it just gets boring and unchallenging.

— Sam Seder

I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for…

— Ethan Suplee

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our…

— Steven Spielberg

I just don't skimp on TV. Even if I'm exhausted and so tired and it's 12 A.M. and a Sunday night, I'll…

— Dakota Fanning

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number…

— Edward R. Murrow

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else…

— Shawn Ryan

With TV season structures - and I'm a huge TV watcher - you look at shows like 'Breaking Bad,' which is my…

— Sam Esmail

I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your…

— Michael Douglas

...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus…

— Jack Kerouac

There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to…

— Keanu Reeves

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

— Gary David

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

— Seth MacFarlane

Would you please turn on the television. I'd like to see if I'm still alive and how I'm doing.

— Murray Haydon

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

— John Cho

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

— Glen Powell

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to…

— Jimmy Fallon

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.

— Ben Nicholas

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

— Rob Reiner

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of…

— Kelly Brook

Most people can differentiate between the guy you see on TV and the real-life guy.

— Wade Barrett

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and…

— Jerome Flynn

Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant.

— Becky Albertalli

I like that 'Scrubs' is very funny and silly and broad, but also emotional and real - sometimes within the same scene.

— Brett Goldstein

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in…

— Stephanie Beatriz

I want to be a shotgun-toting, gangster-robbing black homosexual like Omar on The Wire.

— Anonymous

They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

— Jamie Dornan

Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back…

— Mira Grant

Although television and newspapers have played the biggest role in hyping up the World Cup, they are at the lowest end of…

— Sucheta Dalal

There's really no hope of anyone turning off the Olympics to watch something on Fox.

— Seth Macfarlane

“Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.”

— Fred Allen

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

— Marlon Brando