Television Quotes · Page 209

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes… TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

— John Mason Brown

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

— Steve Burns

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest…

— Matthew Lillard

I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

— Zach Anner

The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

— Jean Smart

The full house team met this year to talk about making full house aired in 2014 as a sequel :)

— Anonymous

PATRICK JANE: It's nice to be nice. But if you want to get ahead in life, sometimes you have to be a…

— The Mentalist

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

— Kevin Spacey

I think reality TV now needs a big kick up the a - to get creative and be meaningful, I think. Otherwise,…

— Gordon Ramsay

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off…

— Edward R. Murrow

Television demands continuity and more work month after month. One has to also maintain quality as it reaches not just India but…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or…

— James Baldwin

Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it…

— Frederick Lenz

I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's…

— David Thewlis

I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like…

— Michael Imperioli

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show -…

— Louise Jameson

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I…

— Miles Teller

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe…

— D. B. Sweeney

Sitcoms are fun. The whole multi-cam genre is always a lot of fun. You throw a live audience in the mix, and…

— Jason Priestley

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's…

— Dominic West

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously,…

— James Purefoy

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

— Barry Levinson

When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

— Krysten Ritter

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

— Anjelica Huston

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

— Amber Nash

I'm not chasing reality shows. Viewers want to see me and producers want me on their shows.

— Rakhi Sawant

One of the things that I wanted to do post-'Haven' is go after some shows I was a fan of already, and…

— Edge

I don't view the web as any other secondary medium to television or film - I just think it's another avenue.

— Bear McCreary

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of…

— Laura Marano

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

— Nina Tassler

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

— Jimmy Carr

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and…

— Nadine Gordimer

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

— Paul Fussell

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

— Jonny Lee Miller

Every television show is hard to do, but when you're in genre and you're recreating worlds and mythologies, they're particularly hard.

— Kevin Reilly

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble…

— Lara Pulver

Deadwood was one of the most amazing experiences Ive ever had. I just loved that show.

— Timothy Omundson

“Television’s emergence as the dominant medium of communication gave birth to the slickly marketed health-wealth-and-success gospel rampant in today’s church.”

— Charles W. Colson

It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely…

— Dick Vitale

I have Time Warner, and I try to relax a lot and watch television a lot and everything. I really enjoy that.…

— Roky Erickson