Television Quotes · Page 193

TV is done so quickly that you really don't have time to develop the character fully.

— Nick Searcy

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

— Kofi Annan

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

— Patrick Labyorteaux

My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from…

— Billy Howle

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

— Billy Connolly

You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play…

— Ella Baker

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view.…

— Ingrid Bergman

People who come through television, if they don't get distracted, they learn how to shoot fast. They don't get shocked. And if…

— Tony Todd

It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to…

— Remi Aubuchon

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of…

— Sidney Poitier

Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative…

— Astra Taylor

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern…

— Anders Holm

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front…

— Will Self

It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don't know why people love shows about crime…

— Nick Yarris

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part…

— Josh Schwartz

I don't want my shows to run for more than a year as you get bored doing the same role. But you…

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

— Bob Newhart

People watch TV, and think your life perfect. I wanted to be honest and say, 'I've been through tough places and you…

— Shannon Bream

Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires…

— Jeetendra

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

— Tom Colicchio

When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.

— Jim Beaver

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a…

— Jeremy Paxman

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

— Eminem

Emmerdale's been great. I'm very biased but I think it's in a really good place.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

— Guy Martin

I got pantsed in 'Bar Wars,' the number-one rated episode of 'Cheers' all time. I'm very proud of that.

— Wade Boggs

Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become…

— Ravi Shastri

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

— Johnny Ball

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

— Trey Parker

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

— Bob Newhart

“The average American burns 55 minutes a day-roughly 12 weeks a year-looking for things they know they own but can't find.”

— Newsweek

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

— Jason Statham

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like,…

— John Gallagher, Jr

What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged…

— Peter David

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

— Anne Robinson

I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.

— Lena Waithe