Television Quotes · Page 124

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the…

— Jessica St. Clair

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it…

— David Selby

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

— Jackie Chan

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

— David Walton

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

— Colin Cunningham

One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.

— Kevin Reilly

I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king.

— Sam Esmail

I had done as much as I could on radio and I was too young to die. So I went on television.

— Bob Crane

The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you…

— Jon Hein

“Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the…

— Stephen King

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special…

— Garry Shandling

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going…

— David Bowie

I think one of the problems in determining the ending for a television series is that you don't know how long the…

— Damon Lindelof

The difference in working on a TV series and a movie comes down to one thing for me, and that is the…

— Texas Battle

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five…

— John Slattery

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

— Laurence J. Peter

I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.

— Sarah Paulson

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television…

— David Halberstam

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of…

— Lauren Graham

When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died

— Yogi Berra

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

— Mark Feuerstein

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting…

— Spalding Gray

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a…

— Norman Lear

“Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.”

— John Grooters

I think, with these shows, with 'Last Week Tonight,' with 'Full Frontal,' I think, as these shows have evolved, we all have…

— Wyatt Cenac

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

— Christine Lahti

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness…

— Gretchen Rubin

There's a lot of negative things which happen in the show we're not trying to lie about that, that's the beauty of…

— Ashley Walters

When my wife and I promised the rest of our lives to each other, I doubt either of us suspected that life…

— Romesh Ranganathan

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

— Kerr Smith

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

— David Alan Basche

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

— Harriet Van Horne

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television…

— Sherri Saum

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a…

— Cynthia Ozick

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much…

— Denis Leary

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

— Michelle Borth

I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome…

— Jessica Sorensen

“Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a…

— Kurt Vonnegut