Television Quotes · Page 175

You remind me of the black guy on The Office, because you're the black guy in our office.

— Anonymous

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so…

— Nora Fatehi

If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually…

— Gavin Esler

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of…

— Joseph Barbera

We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the…

— Philip Glenister

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that…

— Charlie Pierce

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This…

— Hugh Sidey

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

— Jessica St. Clair

I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think three debates [primary debates] is the right number. I think that, uh, they'll be extremely well watched. There are those…

— Donald Trump

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on…

— Jill Douglas

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of…

— Yvette Mimieux

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.

— Juergen Teller

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles…

— David S. Goyer

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

— Lena Dunham

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate…

— Jimmy Carter

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change…

— Roger Ailes

I want to make smart television.

— Michael Ironside

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

— Peter Dinklage

We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand…

— Bill Watterson

I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held…

— Bob Balaban

I'm just looking at other opportunities, television... not so much another existing reality show, but more about creating stuff.

— Courtney Act

ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army,…

— Fareed Zakaria

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of…

— Anna Quindlen

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear…

— Christopher Nolan

We went through a period of time when if you were of Asian descent, you would play a terrorist or you would…

— Reshma Shetty

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that…

— J. Cole

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

— Ira Glass

There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the…

— Norman Corwin

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a…

— Vincent Kartheiser

Books are for only those who can live without television.

— Vikrant Parsai

I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.

— Jane Lynch

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all…

— Colm Meaney

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they…

— A. A. Gill

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

— Jon Lovett

I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be…

— Martha Stewart

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

— Taylor Sheridan

I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given…

— Michael Deaver