Television Quotes · Page 211

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is…

— Stacy Keach

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.

— Nicola Walker

Televison is time bound. Whereas a movie has time. You can't write a script for television and keep it for one year.

— Siddharth Shukla

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

— Joan Fontaine

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would…

— Tracy Morgan

It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because…

— Lena Waithe

Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid…

— Reed Hastings

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're…

— Aja Naomi King

The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the…

— Mark Kurlansky

I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need…

— Andy Daly

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But…

— Christopher Lee

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth…

— Benjamin Bratt

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can…

— Patrick Dempsey

To be honest with you, I don't know how even to articulate it at this point, because sometimes the real difference in…

— Steve Zissis

Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach.

— Jessica Hecht

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

— Aldo Leopold

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

— Danny Strong

This is the evolution of television. It just keeps evolving from three networks, four cable networks, satellite. Now there's Internet channels and…

— Scott Rogowsky

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How…

— Tom Clancy

I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz…

— Kerry King

I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have…

— Aimee Garcia

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

— Robert Kennedy

In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

— Robson Green

My parents weren't keen on me watching television when I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, which is ironic given…

— Lucy Worsley

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

— Norm MacDonald

Usually if you have an idea, you have to first pitch it to a production company, get them on board, then go…

— Scott Rogowsky

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

— Chris Wallace

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

— Keith Richards

I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of…

— Steven Levitan

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as…

— David Hasselhoff

Burglars, judging by our statistics, define opportunity as an unoccupied, unlocked house stocked with portable television sets.

— Gerald Cvetko

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.

— Laurence Fishburne

Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've…

— Zachary Levi

For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.

— Peter Chernin

With people all the way from 17 to 2... 'iCarly' often is the No. 1 show, not just on cable but all of television.

— Dan Schneider

My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want…

— Darius McCrary

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

— Ed Gordon