Television Quotes · Page 195

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first…

— Colin Farrell

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark…

— Alice Lowe

Public Broadcasting is important to our state and our people, and I don't want to see it disappear.

— Jim Justice

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made…

— Michael Shanks

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

— Ron White

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

— Camille Paglia

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

— Bonnie Hammer

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

— Mary Tyler Moore

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows,…

— Larry Cohen

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter…

— Anthony Bourdain

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside…

— Mare Winningham

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show…

— Lucas Neff

I want it to feel very satisfying, the ending, so you've felt like you were going on a journey and we were…

— Mindy Kaling

In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who…

— Channing Dungey

I think at the end of the day, the show was huge and we all faced the task of having to show…

— Brian Austin Green

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

— Matthew Weiner

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it…

— Jim Parsons

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest…

— Will McDonough

There are two types of television: the first makes the intelligent more difficult to govern, and the second makes the dumb easier…

— Jean Guehenno

That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.

— Cristela Alonzo

My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on…

— David Walton

I think the last reality show I watched was the first 'Survivor'. That was a long time ago.

— David Henrie

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what…

— Sophia Loren

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to…

— Seth MacFarlane

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups…

— Busy Philipps

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I mean, I don't have a TV, which is funny because I work in TV and that's where all my money comes…

— Julio Torres

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

— Joel Siegel

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have…

— Andy Milonakis

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all…

— Gore Vidal

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

— Andy Richter

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Don't you hate TV when people are supposed to be talking to one another? Television puts up a wall between people.”

— Peter Marino

“I am playing Dramatical Murder (an erotic visual novel) at my desk and don’t pay attention to the TV.”

— Eliza Clark

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

— Steve Kanaly

If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

— George Peppard

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

— Bill Condon