Television Quotes · Page 138

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

— Don Cornelius

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

— Taylor Momsen

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

— Bill Mumy

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would…

— William H. Macy

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can do a show with lots of storylines. You can cram it with issues. People will keep up.

— Nicholas Hammond

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to…

— Denis Leary

When I sat down to write 'Udaariyan' I realised that I wanted to put down things that were not happening on television.

— Sargun Mehta

I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with…

— Candice Patton

If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a…

— Jack Nicklaus

The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house…

— James Howard Kunstler

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio,…

— Johnny Weir

I never watched Lost. I just thought it would be fun to be part of something that was such a big part…

— Allison Janney

I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's…

— Katee Sackhoff

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be…

— Erik Estrada

There's a lot of unexpected things. Wonderful things, tough things, but there's always somebody just ready to pitch in. That's probably the…

— Scott M. Gimple

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

— Diablo Cody

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange…

— Dov Davidoff

It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

— Bud Abbott

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

— Samantha Bond

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their…

— Bethenny Frankel

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But…

— Robert Vaughn

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense…

— Donal Logue

I think having the King of the Ring on television can only help with the importance of matches and help wrestling.

— Harley Race

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

— Susan Orlean

I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.

— Sara Pascoe

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

— Ridley Scott

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

— Noel Coward

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of…

— Fred Rogers

TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.

— Randy Rainbow

“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.”

— Kent Hughes

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

— Lisa Joy

I'm not looking at anyone on television and thinking: why do I never get those parts?

— Maureen Lipman

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

— Nina Tassler

Pressing harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak...

— Anonymous

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

— Yvonne Orji

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on…

— Patrick Swayze

People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.

— Limmy