Television Quotes · Page 188

“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captured after the first six months. People will soon get tired…

— Darryl F. Zanuck

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and…

— James Van Praagh

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

— Edwin Diamond

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

— Bill Mumy

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would…

— William H. Macy

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

— Don Cornelius

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

— Taylor Momsen

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish…

— Andrzej Wajda

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would…

— Simon Baker

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having…

— Bill Cosby

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and…

— Amber Tamblyn

What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and…

— Sarah Wayne Callies

A lot of shows, things will just simmer and simmer and maybe never explode into the open, or only risk exploding into…

— Joshua Malina

I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a…

— Victoria Smurfit

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

— Samantha Bond

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But…

— Robert Vaughn

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their…

— Bethenny Frankel

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange…

— Dov Davidoff

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

— Diablo Cody

It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

— Bud Abbott

“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.”

— Kent Hughes

TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.

— Randy Rainbow

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

— Nina Tassler

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

— Lisa Joy

I'm not looking at anyone on television and thinking: why do I never get those parts?

— Maureen Lipman

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense…

— Donal Logue

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

— Susan Orlean

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

— Ridley Scott

I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.

— Sara Pascoe

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

— Noel Coward

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of…

— Fred Rogers

I think having the King of the Ring on television can only help with the importance of matches and help wrestling.

— Harley Race

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

— Yvonne Orji

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on…

— Patrick Swayze

Pressing harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak...

— Anonymous

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on…

— Raza Jaffrey

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not…

— Cristin Milioti