Television Quotes · Page 225

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at…

— Quentin Crisp

I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

— Marti Noxon

People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.

— Ben Barnes

I cannot manage fiction with the story line and the schedules. Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do…

— Sunil Grover

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my…

— Alicia Keys

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something…

— Pauline Kael

If ailing British companies such as Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, British Airways and Cadbury can be turned around, there is still hope for…

— Noel Edmonds

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space -…

— Danielle Panabaker

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He…

— Michael Cudlitz

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately…

— Arto Lindsay

Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that…

— Rue McClanahan

It took me some time to realize television, for someone like me, was the perfect medium. I like to produce, I like…

— Julie Plec

I think right now there's more TV shows than ever. You've got network, you've got cable, you've got Netflix, you've got Hulu,…

— Hannibal Buress

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an…

— Walter Cronkite

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness…

— Armando Iannucci

When it comes to vampires, Daniel Gillies's Elijah is the cream of the crop. Since leaving 'The Vampire Diaries' to headline 'The…

— Rebecca Serle

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point…

— Eric Kripke

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

— Austin Peck

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use…

— Vint Cerf

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

— Jon Lovett

“TV costs us a lot more than money. Time. TV viewing has robbed me of my time—my most precious asset. Even”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I…

— Jenna Fischer

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

— Jimmy Buffett

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show…

— Shawn Ryan

I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good…

— Justin Hartley

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on…

— Tommy Shaw

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

— Jamie Hyneman

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend…

— Jasmine Guy

Though the film industry is my primary area of work, television allows me to reach out to the audience quicker.

— Manobala

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

— Rosie Jones

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

— David Chase

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young,…

— Troian Bellisario

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

— Andy Warhol

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The…

— Tahar Rahim

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

— David Hare

Tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood. So if you don't mind, I would like to watch.

— Prince

When you have a child or you love somebody, that's your Achilles' heel on 'Game of Thrones,' because your enemy will find…

— Michael McElhatton

As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping…

— Emilio Rivera

I actually have two hats in my office; one says "network," one says "studio." Paul Lee over at ABC sent those over…

— Gary Numan

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

— Terence McKenna