Television Quotes · Page 134

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

— Bill Hicks

I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns…

— Bree Turner

I'll be honest with you. It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get 'The Tonight Show.'

— David Letterman

Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned…

— Lea Thompson

Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.

— Katty Kay

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

— John Thune

TV is going to be more tailored to you, and the traditional experience of coming in in the middle of a show…

— Roy Price

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

— Pete Waterman

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web,…

— Jonah Peretti

Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a…

— Rhys Ifans

“I can see myself acquiring bad habits from living here. My little house is equipped with a TV, and I've watched a…

— David Lodge

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little…

— David Selby

I'm mostly interested in characters and how they manifest themselves in their relationships. I'm delighted that people relate to the characters in…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent…

— Arthur C. Clarke

You have to ensure box office returns for someone to place confidence in you and make content with you, whether you are…

— Arjun Mathur

I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to…

— Callie Thorne

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time,…

— Tina Fey

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

— Greg Berlanti

“Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives”

— David Niven

People know a lot about my life - I've been on TV since I was three years old. And there's not a…

— Peyton List

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

— David Droga

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

— William Arthur Ward

But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.

— Dana Reeve

I just hate television that's out to make people cry because other people like to see people cry.

— Prue Leith

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

— Ray Bradbury

Whenever I talk about how good season two of 'The Comeback' is, people ask, 'Do I have to see season one?' And…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool…

— Thu Tran

I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of…

— Hilarie Burton

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

— Marshall McLuhan

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do…

— Sandra Bernhard

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

— Tyson Chandler

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over…

— Taraji P. Henson

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

— Kevin Feige

“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.”

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and…

— Barry Levinson

I think people expect - when you have success in whatever field it is, and I think ours especially, when people see…

— Scottie Scheffler

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

— Vatsal Sheth

Remember, a TV pilot is like an experiment. You try it out, and if it works, then they make it a series.…

— Bear McCreary