Television Quotes · Page 221

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

— Zosia Mamet

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run,…

— Robert Greenblatt

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or…

— Madchen Amick

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope…

— Harrison Ford

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

— Josh Gad

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and…

— Rhys Darby

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

— Nolan North

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story…

— John le Carre

Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and…

— Ronald Steel

It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's…

— Mark Sheppard

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the…

— Leslie Mann

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there…

— John Irving

I always had dreams that I could be on television. I used to watch 'The Late Show' with my dad, and I'd…

— Sean Evans

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly…

— Omari Hardwick

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada.…

— Mary Gordon

“It's hard to start a revolution when your face is six feet from your television.”

— Grant Peeples

I do have a rule about how much I will take on - the last thing you want is to be on…

— Phillip Schofield

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists…

— Jeremy Bernstein

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every…

— Tyler Christopher

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white…

— Ryan Murphy

I feel like as a writer, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to 'Game of Thrones', because it really blew open…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

— Allison Williams

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really…

— Mike Newell

I'm a big 'Breaking Bad' fan - if I'm not in the script, I like to experience the show with the rest…

— Steven Michael Quezada

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of…

— Jean Baudrillard

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was…

— Joy Bryant

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

— Garry Shandling

I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.

— Thomas Middleditch

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

— Victor Garber

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're…

— Jimmy Smits

You are put into a certain box when you are on reality TV. People think you are stupid.

— Zara McDermott

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

— Gerard Depardieu

You have to be your own biggest fan. I don't think you're able to go on auditions and write pilots without fully…

— Megan Stalter

'Survivor' is one of CBS's signature series and symbol of enduring quality and entertainment on prime time television.

— Nina Tassler

I thought I was going to do some cult, cool, late-night interviewing thing on BBC2. But everyone kept saying: 'No, Michael, you're…

— Michael McIntyre

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

— Peaches Geldof

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on…

— Callie Khouri

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch…

— Sophie Turner

If we want to be considered among the shows that are worth watching, it's got to be really good. Ultimately, that's all…

— Tommy Dewey