Television Quotes · Page 181

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every…

— David Niven

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

— Eric Idle

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

— Viola Davis

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

— Sergei Polunin

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

— Peter M. Lenkov

It was so nice to see a lot of my close friends get recruited and join the women's division in TNA and…

— Daffney

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers…

— Amanda Peet

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

— Gwen Ifill

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the…

— Antony Beevor

TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the…

— Anne Wojcicki

I think the writers of 'Community' have moved on from my character. I'm pretty sure. I would love to go back on.…

— Eliza Coupe

I left for Fiji 36 hours after we wrapped 'Lucha Underground' season 4. The producers of 'Lucha Underground' had to bend over…

— John Morrison

So I'm definitely coming up in the entertainment world. Definitely a talk show down the line is my ultimate goal and you…

— EJ Johnson

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the…

— Daniel Gilbert

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me,…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people…

— Oliver Stone

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

— Ronnie Barker

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could…

— Sara Paxton

When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations.

— Sarita Choudhury

That is the great thing about Impact - they care about each individual talent and everything that we put out on TV…

— Tessa Blanchard

Me and my wife are into 'Game of Thrones,' and she sucked me into 'Nashville' a little bit, but she'll watch 'Sons…

— Carey Hart

Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

— Alexandra Daddario

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

— Miguel Sapochnik

I made a conscious decision to stop watching 'Big Brother.' I was an avid fan, but I felt it was time to…

— Michael Ball

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be…

— Derren Brown

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

— Jane Lynch

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

— Vatsal Sheth

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so…

— Stephen Daldry

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as…

— John Cleese

TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to…

— Nia Sharma

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

— Barney Frank

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

— Nestor Carbonell

One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.

— David Nutter

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

— Dominic West

I only like my drama in TV and movies, so if you're bringing it to my real life don't be mad when…

— Brian Zilinek

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

— Essence Atkins

I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull…

— Vivica A. Fox

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply…

— Merv Griffin

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

— Nathalie Emmanuel