Television Quotes · Page 166

Television is about identifying with the characters.

— Ekta Kapoor

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And…

— Woody Allen

No one really sees the hours of work you put into that moment that finally happens on television or in the theater;…

— Jordan Fisher

I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When…

— William Shatner

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious,…

— Sean Hayes

There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

— Luke Macfarlane

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside…

— Mare Winningham

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of…

— Alaina Huffman

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

— Adrianne Palicki

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or…

— Bill O'Reilly

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very…

— Josh Prince

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

— Kate Bush

I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands.…

— Ally Walker

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

— John Skipper

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

— Marshall McLuhan

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and…

— John F. Kennedy

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

— Josh Schwartz

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get…

— Mikaela Hoover

I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work.…

— Kristen Stewart

Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There…

— Po Bronson

I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have…

— Kay Kay Menon

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

— Mariella Frostrup

I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

— Rachel Bloom

I love doing television series.

— Kellie Martin

“Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy is sweet, wholseome, and…

— David Thomson

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV…

— Harriet Van Horne

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

— Maria Franziska von Trapp

I'm a huge fan of 'The Watch,' and I've also been on a few times. It's Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan's show…

— Sam Esmail

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television…

— Jeff Zucker

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a…

— Emma Caulfield

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

I tell my kids no television and no cellphones at the table.

— Buddy Valastro

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and…

— Barry Levinson

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working…

— Megyn Kelly

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

— Michael O'Donoghue

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in…

— Ian Somerhalder

I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one…

— Stana Katic

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

— Paul Erdos