Television Quotes · Page 32

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

— David Ogden Stiers

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

— Michael Hirst

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

— David Mamet

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

— Fred Allen

“Steak swallowers zonked on Television!”

— Allen Ginsberg

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

— Terry Pratchett

TV is the place that writers want to be.

— Ayelet Zurer

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

— John Wells

I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything…

— Gavin Creel

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that…

— Bryant Gumbel

'Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also…

— Maxine Peake

The people who know the show really love the show, and they know quotes and details. It's exactly what we wanted. It's…

— Charlie Day

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

— Isaac Brock

I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no…

— Carol Burnett

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that…

— Alice Walker

I never watched reality shows. I was obviously very aware of them because they're everywhere, but I was not somebody who watched…

— Constance Zimmer

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that…

— Doug Stanhope

“Television wasn't getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking…

— Susan Orlean

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel…

— Lauren Graham

I have always said the success of the show has stemmed from our audience being able to relate to the characters on…

— Katie McGrath

My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks…

— Vladimir Sorokin

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen…

— Kim Basinger

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and -…

— Malcolm X

I believe that there is a simple demand and supply rule that works on television. While many are hooked on web series,…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

— Neil Oliver

I love the characters in 'Wolf of Wall Street' and 'House of Cards.'

— Rana Daggubati

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

— Ron Perlman

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

— Paul Rust

I do hour-long shows all over the country almost every day.

— Josh Blue

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

— Graham Norton

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

— Michael K. Powell

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

— Charisma Carpenter

I can think of doing TV shows if the money is good.

— R. Madhavan

'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.

— Maisie Williams

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

I love euro TV drama, there's some fantastic shows.

— Lesley Sharp

Constantly wondering why your life isn't a reality show.

— Anonymous

“T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

My shows are meant to be entertaining, not educational.

— Dan Schneider

“Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.”

— Laurie Frankel