Television Quotes · Page 212

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

— Marti Noxon

When you see me on the television you may think I'm very sure about myself. That is not the right image.

— Marcel Desailly

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people…

— Lisa Kudrow

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up,…

— Louis C. K

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

— Barry Lane

I think TV, at times, is incredibly regressive, but I guess with the way few people are ready to experiment, the progressive…

— Soni Razdan

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

— James Purefoy

I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on…

— Fiona Bruce

I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on…

— Matt Kuchar

The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always…

— J. J. Abrams

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And…

— Sandra Bullock

Shooting for a TV show is not very different from shooting for a movie. We work for long hours in both the…

— Nikitin Dheer

Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I spend a lot of time on TV doing the same sort of thing. I found a niche in TV where people…

— Tyler Labine

When I'd come home from work, you know, I'd watch television like every other average guy, go to the movies occasionally, and…

— Ken Wahl

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative…

— Kevin Barry

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

— Robin Weigert

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to…

— Louis C. K

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

— Pepa

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television…

— Brooke Nevin

If I could wave a wand, I would order another season of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' That's a show with a real voice.

— Roy Price

“thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think…

— Iris Murdoch

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

— Nick Willing

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm…

— Corin Nemec

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

— Brian Eno

It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.

— Chris Chibnall

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

— Bill James

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television…

— Marc Maron

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project…

— David Nevins

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be…

— Trevor McDonald

I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I loved 'King of Queens'... You can't spend that amount of time somewhere and not pick that as your favorite.

— Leah Remini

I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be.

— Laurie Metcalf

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

— David Attenborough

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

— Mark Rylance

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

— Andy Daly

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

— Tom Verlaine

I feel incredibly passionate about 'Bunheads,' but the network was not supportive of the show, and you have to have that.

— Sutton Foster

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

— Sandra Bernhard