Television Quotes · Page 113

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses

— Umberto Eco

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.

— Jaime Camil

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

— Shirley Knight

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

— Grace Jones

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Television is a very powerful medium and I am open to doing any type of shows on television.

— Poonam Dhillon

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

— Chris Noth

Joining 'Hee Haw' was one of of the best moves I ever made. Until then I had no television exposure except the…

— Barbi Benton

I had my doubts about 'Yes, Prime Minister' being successful in the U.S. because your system of government is so different than…

— Nigel Hawthorne

We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's…

— Michael Landon, Jr

Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and…

— Lori Palatnik

I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a…

— Victoria Smurfit

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in…

— Frederic Raphael

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way…

— Matt Groening

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much…

— Travis Lane Stork

There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.

— John de Lancie

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

— Galina Vishnevskaya

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

— Andy Rooney

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

— Timothy Noah

Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting.

— Bear McCreary

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy.…

— Julie Bowen

Everyone told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, 'No it's not, it just…

— Lee Mack

“Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of…

— Tina Fey

When I started at NBC, I'm quite sure there wasn't a plan or initiative that we need to make sure the girls…

— Stephanie Ruhle

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I…

— George Clooney

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

— Al Lopez

I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.

— Keegan-Michael Key

There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people…

— Dov Davidoff

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

— Todd Phillips

I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of…

— Lorne Michaels

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

— Mark Goddard

There are shows that I would like to be able to watch, but don't really have time to, like 'Hannibal.'

— Monica Galetti

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

— Terence Lewis

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Let's try to put at least as much thought into voting for the next U.S. president as we do into voting for…

— Anonymous

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

— Janet Street-Porter

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

— Richard Jenkins

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

— Eric Bristow

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television…

— Atom Egoyan