Television Quotes · Page 179

I think, if I hadn't grown as an actor, I wouldn't have been offered television, let alone films.

— Milind Soman

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the…

— Adam Carolla

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very…

— Bryan Fuller

I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base,…

— Jay R. Ferguson

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

— Todd McFarlane

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything.…

— Ari Graynor

At one point, I was getting online abuse and it made me think that I didn't want to do TV again.

— Alex Brooker

With my addictive personality I'm afraid to start watching a TV series, but I love 'Law & Order' - it's so straightforward…

— Elaine May

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and…

— Val Kilmer

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily…

— Eric McCormack

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising…

— Kevin Spacey

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host,…

— Craig Ferguson

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family.…

— Sammi Hanratty

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough…

— Gordon Strachan

That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you dont know what to do with your life anymore.

— Ridwan Oladapo

I'm not complaining, but in a perfect world, we could just watch reality TV all day long.

— Spencer Pratt

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends'…

— Clemence Poesy

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

— Steve Buscemi

I don't even turn a computer on all year unless it's to watch 'Celebrity Big Brother!'

— Jonathan Cheban

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

— Tony Goldwyn

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

— Nancy Marchand

The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

— Bill Maher

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best,…

— Ann B. Davis

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

You make shows, and you don't go into it thinking, 'Our show's going to be number one'; you go into it hoping…

— Charlie Murphy

When I was youn,g I always saw Brazil winning games on television with fantastic players and a fantastic team.

— David Luiz

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

— Peter Dinklage

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

— Rainn Wilson

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite…

— Carl Sagan

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as…

— Neil Warnock

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

— Chris March

“Just because I'm outnumbered doesn't mean I'm wrong, does it?' Tom Goode from UK TV series 'The Good Life' 1970's”

— Esmonde and Larbey

I imagine when you're making a reality show with a whole crew, it's bound to get complicated.

— Erin Foster

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

— Rebecca Romijn

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

— John Hodgman

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

— Jose Andres