Television Quotes · Page 118

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

— Ryan Murphy

Unfortunately, my dancing skills never came to the fore, as I got involved in acting on television, where an actor doesn't get…

— Vikrant Massey

I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'

— Jonathan Agnew

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

— David Duchovny

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

— Christopher Lloyd

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

— Elisha Cuthbert

To be fair, it's quite funny because in my career, I've never had a trainer for longer than one and a half…

— Matthijs de Ligt

Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good…

— Travis Fimmel

TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into…

— Matt Bomer

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are…

— Miriam Makeba

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.…

— Douglas Crimp

“Eight hundred forty-three television stations, and there didn’t appear to be much more worth watching than when we lived in the black-and-white…

— Meredith Blevins

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead…

— Sophie Okonedo

Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture…

— John Nettles

In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in…

— Tina Fey

Any place is really tough to wrestle until you get over. Once you get over, it doesn't matter if you're on television…

— Tommaso Ciampa

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

— Ken Loach

What a lot of people don't realize is that on soaps, you only get one take to do it right.

— Matthew Bomer

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

— Paul Virilio

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

— Patti LuPone

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and…

— Margo Martindale

“Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.”

— Bryant McGill

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex…

— Franklin P Jones

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

— Yvette Mimieux

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry…

— Bill Bryson

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

— John Skipper

We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some…

— Geneen Roth

The best TV is always about family, whether it's 'All in the Family,' or 'The Sopranos' or 'The Flintstones.'

— Adrian Pasdar

The great thing about TV is that it's so fluid. When you bring in someone for one quick role and they're fantastic,…

— Jed Whedon

“Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.”

— Melissa Jo Peltier

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the…

— Quentin Tarantino

My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

— Miranda Raison

I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky…

— Erika Christensen

When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show

— George Lopez

“Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.”

— Rivera Sun

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away…

— Kami Garcia

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially…

— Michael Apted

The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong…

— Donal Logue