Television Quotes · Page 204

So that's where Endemol got the idea for 'Big Brother' from - residential care! No choice. No privacy. No dignity. I can…

— Liz Carr

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't…

— Abbi Jacobson

There's nothing to beat 'DID' on Indian television... the show that has given me so many highs in my career!

— Shakti Mohan

All my life, all I've wanted to do was a talk show, and I've done it for most of my life. Now…

— Regis Philbin

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

— Amitabh Bachchan

All I need is a TV show, that and the radio. Down on my luck again, down on my luck again.

— Genesis

I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the…

— Harry Dean Stanton

There's so much good television now, and there's a lot of things on television that would have been a movie or maybe…

— Denise Di Novi

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another…

— Tom Selleck

I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other…

— Bill Gates

“Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous…

— Teresa Lo

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was…

— Kem Nunn

The term 'web-series' has a stigma attached to it because it was created at a time when the only web-series that were…

— John Cabrera

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in…

— Rocco DiSpirito

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway.…

— Mel Smith

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season…

— Tyra Banks

Most people in TV are nice but there are some who just live in Egoville. They're not talented, they're just famous. I…

— Kelvin Fletcher

We have the very best censoring devices in our own homes. If we don't like what we see on television, we can…

— Mike Connors

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of…

— Brad Garrett

It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.

— Eric McCormack

For television worth watching, Trump should debate Karl Rove, and both should be tasked with figuring out how to unite Republicans.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors…

— Julianne Moore

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.

— Elliot Cowan

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

— Gloria Calderon Kellett

“It's not like I ever wanted to wake up and just be a grossly overpaid, self-loathing, can't-look-in-the-mirror-without-gagging TV writer.”

— Jerry Stahl

To be in a soap you have to be someone who is prepared to be at the grindstone, because it's all hands…

— Kym Marsh

I'm really happy to bring bisexuality to TV because you don't see that often on television, especially with women.

— Madelaine Petsch

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

— Elijah Cummings

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has…

— Edgar Bergen

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the…

— Dan Harmon

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

— Lauren Zalaznick

“Liz had the desperate beauty of a fancy guest soap that had been used too often but whose original features still stubbornly…

— Terry Maggert

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

— Simon Bird

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

— Kurt Fuller

I was distributing DVDs in Mumbai in 2006, and that is when I got my first TV show offer - 'Left Right…

— Harshvardhan Rane

It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.

— Charlie Murphy

I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that…

— John Matuszak

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour…

— Walter Isaacson