Television Quotes · Page 222

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging…

— Douglas Coupland

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

— Rupert Murdoch

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

— Amy Poehler

We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series…

— Todd Haynes

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

— Oliver Stone

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

— Bill Mumy

I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.

— Hari Nef

I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands.…

— Ally Walker

It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a…

— Cary Fukunaga

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange…

— Tomoko Yamashita

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is…

— Tia Mowry

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of…

— Alex Graves

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does…

— Neil Postman

“Nothing new to report. Probably an entertainment program starting its broadcast. This world Earth was inundated with entertainment programs. Having few real…

— Arwen Elys Dayton

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still…

— Jeff Zucker

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing…

— Lennie James

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels…

— Gabourey Sidibe

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will…

— Harry Shearer

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

— Rupert Murdoch

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

— Ken Stott

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you…

— David Duchovny

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

— Christiane Amanpour

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

— Michael Portillo

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what…

— Chris Harrison

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

— Daryl Hannah

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

— Daniel Tosh

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

— Dries van Noten

Television often cannot cover the passing of the torch without fanning the flames in the process.

— Martin Schram

I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.

— Gemma Collins

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

— Joan Severance

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on…

— Sonny Rollins

My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'

— Chad Coleman

I'd love to watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother without you pointing out Neil Patrick Harris is gay.

— Anonymous

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

— Esme Creed-Miles

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

— Eric Dane