Television Quotes · Page 170

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who…

— Damian Lewis

I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do.…

— Jimmy Iovine

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

— Camille Paglia

I like watching different kind of shows, but I hate watching myself on TV. I feel I am a terrible actor.

— Karan Wahi

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four…

— Tyler Perry

I want to do television that edifies women and empowers women, and if I do reality, I want it to be real.

— Phaedra Parks

The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.

— Justin Roiland

I am a trained actor and an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

— Raza Murad

“Between 1940 and 1970, output per person and output per hour continued to increase rapidly, in part as a result of three…

— Robert J. Gordon

We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them…

— Polly Berrien Berends

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is…

— Julie Bowen

The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I…

— Simon Helberg

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be…

— Rashida Jones

It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still…

— Steven Wright

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

— Richard Lloyd

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

— Michael Schur

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

— William Boyd

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

— Paddy Chayefsky

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

— Joe Buck

When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.

— William Petersen

I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I…

— Rachel Nichols

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

— Pearl Cleage

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

— Saul Alinsky

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it…

— Jane Levy

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

— Marya Mannes

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called 'A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten…

— Dave Barry

My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years.…

— SZA

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to…

— Billy Wilder

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a…

— Larry Wilmore

Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be…

— Fred Armisen

I'm on my own when I say this, but I'm one of the few people that think that 'Everybody Loves Raymond' is…

— Lee Mack

What I love with 'Game of Thrones' is, every season, I get to continue to develop the existing themes; every season, I…

— Ramin Djawadi

“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island.

— Nancy Dubuc

I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing…

— Alyssa Milano

I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get…

— Brian Tyree Henry

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy…

— David Bowie