Television Quotes · Page 182

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

— Jay Chiat

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

— Jessica Savitch

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me…

— Michael Hirst

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

— Lee Clow

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so many people watching on their phones or laptops. Style pressure comes with the…

— Hallie Jackson

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

— Scott Pelley

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12-20-86.

— Jimmy Breslin

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary,…

— Kyra Zagorsky

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour…

— Will Smith

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between…

— Kate Walsh

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have…

— Rowan Atkinson

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real…

— Richard Louv

Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a…

— Will Arnett

The interesting thing for 'Playing House' to me is we both are at crossroads in the pilot. We both have our lives…

— Lennon Parham

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines…

— James May

Watching the dailies and then watching the... episodes, it really hits you: 'Damn, I did that?' I must have been crazy to…

— Joseph D. Pistone

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

— Will Self

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on…

— Ian MacKaye

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

— Joe Gilgun

I challenge you to find a whiter problem than Mad Men and Game of Thrones being on at the same time.

— Anonymous

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

— Fred W. Friendly

Every experience I've had with 'Power' has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

I always feel like I'm not very impressive in interviews when I talk about what I watch on television.

— James Roday

I don't want to be an old man some day and look it up and see some episode of one of the…

— Dan Schneider

“Why watch reality TV when I can just open my blinds and look out my window to all the reality I can…

— Jarod Kintz

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly…

— Jill McDonald

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity…

— Barbara Bush

And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.

— David Coleman

Doing a film and doing a TV show are poles apart. They are two different things, cannot be compared, but I enjoy…

— Erica Fernandes

Working in TV films has a lot of advantages over the daily grind of doing an hour series.

— Joe Penny

Every other reality show is so freakin' dramatic, I feel like they bring me down. 'Miz & Mrs' makes people laugh.

— Maryse Mizanin

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

— Alice Lowe

I think that, if I had to guess... what people liked about me on television is that I was natural and myself.

— Chuck Woolery

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot…

— Marion Woodman

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism…

— Harry Hamlin

I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a…

— Dan Amboyer

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned,…

— Jon Secada