Television Quotes · Page 147

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people…

— David Attenborough

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and,…

— Alexis Bledel

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

— Bill Cosby

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a…

— Chris Lilley

So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television…

— Melina Marchetta

I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.

— Graham Yost

I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it…

— Lisa Vanderpump

Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And…

— Seth Shostak

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best…

— Jean Smart

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to…

— Charlotte Rampling

It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I…

— Cheyenne Jackson

The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of…

— Robin Leach

I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and…

— Macaulay Culkin

“I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of…

— Chuck Lorre

One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV…

— Jonathan Nolan

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

— Roy Acuff

The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done - meaning it was not all on television.…

— Anonymous

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't…

— Woody Allen

I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign…

— John Hurt

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

— Peter Higgs

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

— Miriam Shor

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because…

— Jeff Kinney

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one…

— Michael Caine

I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I…

— Darius McCrary

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station.…

— Bruce Baum

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald

Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read…

— Rush Limbaugh

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and…

— Anonymous

I knew I could make people laugh but I was frightened of doing it. I thought, 'What if I'm crap, what if…

— Peter Kay

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I…

— Garry Shandling

The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

— Michael Ironside

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that…

— Chelsea Handler

The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction…

— Paul Saffo

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

— Jane Campion

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I…

— Amos Oz

I'd like to start off this show by asking you all a question, cause I don't know the answer. Uh, I lost…

— Ron White

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened…

— Matt Taibbi

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

— Werner Herzog