Television Quotes · Page 141

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

— Ronnie Barker

Me and my wife are into 'Game of Thrones,' and she sucked me into 'Nashville' a little bit, but she'll watch 'Sons…

— Carey Hart

That is the great thing about Impact - they care about each individual talent and everything that we put out on TV…

— Tessa Blanchard

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

— Alexandra Daddario

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could…

— Sara Paxton

When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations.

— Sarita Choudhury

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

— Viola Davis

I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records…

— Judy Collins

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is…

— Eric Dane

There has to be an element of repetition for TV... You want people to be addicted to your show, and the way…

— Antony Starr

I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am…

— Edward R. Murrow

My biggest influences are network TV. When a new network show comes out, I'm on the couch, hoping that it's good. Often…

— Quinta Brunson

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is…

— Chris Albrecht

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the…

— Aldo Leopold

All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect…

— Daisaku Ikeda

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

— Peter M. Lenkov

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

— Sergei Polunin

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

— Barney Frank

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

— Nestor Carbonell

TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to…

— Nia Sharma

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as…

— John Cleese

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

— Dominic West

One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.

— David Nutter

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I made a conscious decision to stop watching 'Big Brother.' I was an avid fan, but I felt it was time to…

— Michael Ball

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so…

— Stephen Daldry

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

— Vatsal Sheth

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

— Jane Lynch

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be…

— Derren Brown

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

— Jessica Savitch

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

— Jay Chiat

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

I only like my drama in TV and movies, so if you're bringing it to my real life don't be mad when…

— Brian Zilinek

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

— Essence Atkins

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply…

— Merv Griffin

I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull…

— Vivica A. Fox

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

— Scott Pelley

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so many people watching on their phones or laptops. Style pressure comes with the…

— Hallie Jackson

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12-20-86.

— Jimmy Breslin