Television Quotes · Page 148

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

— Howard Stern

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

— Danny Huston

The working hours are easy in films, while there is always an anxiety on television. So the energies are very different.

— Barun Sobti

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved…

— Jay Mohr

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

— Rita Moreno

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

— Travis Beacham

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and…

— Alan Shearer

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the…

— Godfrey Gao

That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the…

— Lance Reddick

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles…

— David S. Goyer

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some…

— Peter Krause

I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the…

— Adam F. Goldberg

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took…

— Jerry Lawler

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll…

— Bruce Campbell

If I can, I would like to do as many different roles in a year because then there is no stagnation. That…

— Hiten Tejwani

Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and…

— Woody Allen

“I was not able to watch TV shows because I felt so bad for the characters if there was any drama or…

— Diana Macey

Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.

— Priyanka Chopra

The good thing about being on a show like 'Justified' is that you stick to the premise, but not necessarily every single…

— Mykelti Williamson

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

— Penelope Ann Miller

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

— Gary Cole

It's not just about television or films, or acting as a whole. It is all about doing only those things which make…

— Vatsal Sheth

I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes…

— Suze Orman

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

— Art Bell

I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.

— Juno Temple

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

— Bobby Kotick

No one was more surprised than me by the success of the first series of 'Line of Duty.'

— Jed Mercurio

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

— Joel Hodgson

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance…

— Julia Quinn

I think, if I hadn't grown as an actor, I wouldn't have been offered television, let alone films.

— Milind Soman

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

— Jay Leno

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or…

— Ross Butler

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

— Groucho Marx

Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.

— Shannen Doherty

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a…

— Chris Lilley

At one point, I was getting online abuse and it made me think that I didn't want to do TV again.

— Alex Brooker

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything.…

— Ari Graynor

That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you dont know what to do with your life anymore.

— Ridwan Oladapo

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very…

— Bryan Fuller

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the…

— Adam Carolla