Television Quotes · Page 108

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of…

— Charles R. Swindoll

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on.…

— Edie Falco

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane…

— Matthew Perry

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Why I turn on the TV: 10% to watch shows. 90% to use it as background noise so I feel less lonely…

— Anonymous

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

— Errol Morris

People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it's over they think we just retire to green…

— Bob Crane

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

— David Walton

Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative…

— Astra Taylor

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of…

— Sidney Poitier

It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to…

— Remi Aubuchon

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown…

— Marina Abramovic

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable…

— Alistair Cooke

'Psych' was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there,…

— James Roday

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get…

— Jeffrey Deitch

There's a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage…

— Angela Yee

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

— Ted Shackelford

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television…

— Ira Glass

With 'Soul Train,' it was the first time I was on television. And I just couldn't believe it.

— Rosie Perez

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being…

— Enrico Colantoni

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

— Dan Harmon

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move…

— George Lucas

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

— Malik Yoba

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get…

— Pete Doherty

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

— Jeffrey Donovan

“Dial 888,” Rick said as the set warmed. “The desire to watch TV, no matter what’s on it.”

— Philip K. Dick

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

— Bob Newhart

The problem is since I have become a big television host now, people have forgotten that I am a singer too.

— Aditya Narayan

What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'

— Jane Pauley

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

— Hans Blix

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and…

— Adrian Pasdar

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be…

— Marc Guggenheim

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

— Anonymous

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

— Tony Hale

There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon…

— David Krumholtz

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

— Shanice Williams

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

— Denis Leary

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

— Tom Wolfe

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch…

— Eminem

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and…

— David Lynch