Television Quotes · Page 220

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

— James Badge Dale

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

— Molly Ivins

There's no money in television, but TV provides the wherewithal to get the dollars for live performances.

— Nipsey Russell

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron…

— Joss Whedon

Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an…

— Zach Woods

Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

— Eric Sykes

When 'Firefly' was canceled, we had just a few other places to shop it to - to take it over... And all…

— Alan Tudyk

“I should create a TV show called 61 Minutes. It’ll be like 60 Minutes—only more.”

— Jarod Kintz

A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any…

— Katee Sackhoff

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are…

— Ronda Rousey

There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up.…

— Carl Sagan

I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted…

— Cupcake Brown

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was…

— Ishmael Reed

However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to…

— Dan Cutforth

I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more…

— David Giuntoli

It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or…

— Damon Lindelof

We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about…

— Rupert Friend

I think no one would dispute that 'Chopped' is a highly athletic television show.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour -…

— Sterling K. Brown

Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used…

— Jeff Daniels

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Having traders elbow you while you are doing live TV is a good education in something.

— Margaret Brennan

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

— David Duchovny

You can't put a show in a boring format to young kids. They need to relate to it.

— Shankar Mahadevan

There's a degree to which leaving an afternoon show to go to America to present telly is borderline delusional.

— Richard Bacon

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better…

— Michael Douglas

Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.

— Anonymous

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

— Dan Rather

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

— Lee Hazlewood

I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious…

— Mary H.K. Choi

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

— Michael Emerson

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

— John Cleese

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

— Lexi Underwood

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure…

— Valentina Tereshkova

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

— Christina Ricci

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I…

— David Mandel

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in…

— Marc Webb

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

— Marianne Williamson