Television Quotes · Page 208

Only those who've presented live television really know how difficult it is to make it look easy.

— Noel Edmonds

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

— Richard Madden

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.

— Matt Preston

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

— Cristela Alonzo

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

— Dani Levy

I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

— Brendan O'Carroll

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You…

— John Green

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

— Berti Vogts

Different mediums are giving a different kind of satisfaction. The reason I do television, if I do web for the same reason,…

— Karan Wahi

One thing about our show that wasn't even in my awareness, but was brought to my attention by other people, is that…

— Steve Zissis

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in…

— Michael Korda

There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is…

— Kenneth Lonergan

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just…

— Gabriel Mann

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the…

— Martin Landau

And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So,…

— Nina Tassler

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all…

— Vicki Lawrence

A job in the television industry does not come with a guarantee. Your show might be axed, your character may get killed…

— Hiten Tejwani

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself…

— Glenn Martinez

You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.

— Kym Whitley

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

— Larry Wilmore

I find that time flies by when you're just sitting on the couch on your phone, watching shows.

— Viktor Hovland

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV…

— Harriet Van Horne

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their…

— Bill Bryson

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of…

— David E. Kelley

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all…

— Tyler Perry

When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.

— Joe Rogan

TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can.

— Juliette Lewis

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

— Judd Apatow

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in…

— Aeriel Miranda

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

— Ellen Pompeo

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

— Ruud Gullit

I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the…

— Kevin Spacey

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

— Hank Stuever

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every…

— Dolly Parton

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

— Nick Rhodes

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

— Gates McFadden

I wonder if Jersey Shore is making Italian-Americans long for the days of only being stereotyped as members of murderous crime syndicates.

— Anonymous

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

— Mathew Baynton

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

— Jodi Balfour