Television Quotes · Page 102

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

— Dan Harmon

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

— Daniel Palladino

Hundred inch TV at my house, I sit back like 'damn I look great on it.'

— Drake

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

— Woody Allen

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

— Cilla Black

I frankly don't watch TV shows that much.

— Soni Razdan

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by…

— Jay Sean

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

— Tom Wolfe

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

— Shanice Williams

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

— Denis Leary

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

— Tony Hale

There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon…

— David Krumholtz

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch…

— Eminem

The biggest advertising dollars are coming from television - not to mention there's just a certain 'aura', there's a certain feeling about…

— Eli Drake

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a…

— Steven Bochco

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Coming off 'Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward…

— Alan Taylor

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating…

— Rupert Murdoch

I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the…

— Gloria Steinem

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation,…

— Craig Brown

There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any…

— Margarita Simonyan

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

— Marshall Herskovitz

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

— Micky Dolenz

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

— Dan Harmon

I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

— Alexandra Daddario

I love when you watch a piece of television, and it just blows your mind.

— Nicola Coughlan

Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

— Natalie Dormer

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

— Mary Nightingale

Not everybody wants to be on TV, believe it or not.

— Erika Jayne

I think I was a part of TV in a more fortunate time.

— Prachi Desai

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.

— Anna Benson

People already have tons of regular TV. They don't need more of that.

— Roy Price

I will always support reality shows, no doubt about it.

— Sonu Kakkar

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

— Tammy Bruce

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

— Eric Close

Growing up I always dreamed of being slimed on Nickelodeon.

— Anonymous

“But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.”

— Rob Thomas