Television Quotes · Page 117

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get…

— James Burrows

Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

— Marta Kauffman

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've…

— Michiel Huisman

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

— David Icke

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

— Austin Peck

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots…

— David Gerrold

At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value…

— Lisa Ling

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing…

— James Gandolfini

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything…

— Heidi Klum

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

There is something to be said for one vision and following one vision through. I do think it's something TV will catch…

— Reed Morano

The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it,…

— Frank Grillo

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able…

— Aldis Hodge

The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on 'Money From Strangers,' being in the van - not even…

— Kurt Braunohler

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I…

— Bear McCreary

“I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube.…

— Neil Gaiman

You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be.

— Shonda Rhimes

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never…

— Anonymous

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport,…

— Kim Basinger

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

— Chris Harrison

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in…

— Jason Alexander

Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera…

— Camille Paglia

It's been more than a decade since 'The Real World: Philadelphia' aired. I've grown up. My views have evolved, as has the…

— Karamo Brown

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still…

— Sienna Guillory

“But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television…

— Kate Morton

My superpower is watching five hours of TV I'm not interested in because I can't reach the remote.

— Nikhil Saluja

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch…

— Lana Del Rey

If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'

— Bobby Moynihan

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No…

— Ichiro Suzuki

I feel like it's extremely rare to find a female who's bisexual and not either lesbian or straight on television shows.

— Madelaine Petsch

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people…

— Andrew Rannells

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

— Bonnie Hammer

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

— Dana Gould

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see…

— Rob Sheffield

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character…

— Dominic Chianese

If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

— Jennifer Nettles

You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that…

— Michelle McCool

People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.

— Lucy Hale