Television Quotes · Page 149

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

— Todd McFarlane

I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base,…

— Jay R. Ferguson

The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

— Bill Maher

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

— Tony Goldwyn

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

— Nancy Marchand

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

— Peter Dinklage

The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.…

— Alexey Brodovitch

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get…

— Tim Matheson

When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's…

— Zeljko Ivanek

The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer…

— Elijah Wood

One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that…

— D. B. Weiss

'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new…

— Cobie Smulders

People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular…

— Willie Mays

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best,…

— Ann B. Davis

When I was youn,g I always saw Brazil winning games on television with fantastic players and a fantastic team.

— David Luiz

You make shows, and you don't go into it thinking, 'Our show's going to be number one'; you go into it hoping…

— Charlie Murphy

I'm not complaining, but in a perfect world, we could just watch reality TV all day long.

— Spencer Pratt

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends'…

— Clemence Poesy

I don't even turn a computer on all year unless it's to watch 'Celebrity Big Brother!'

— Jonathan Cheban

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

— Steve Buscemi

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

— Carson Daly

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

— John Hodgman

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

— Jose Andres

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

— Rebecca Romijn

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do…

— Conan O'Brien

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish…

— Chris O'Dowd

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

— Chris March

“Just because I'm outnumbered doesn't mean I'm wrong, does it?' Tom Goode from UK TV series 'The Good Life' 1970's”

— Esmonde and Larbey

I imagine when you're making a reality show with a whole crew, it's bound to get complicated.

— Erin Foster

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite…

— Carl Sagan

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

— Rainn Wilson

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as…

— Neil Warnock

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be…

— Fred Armisen

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a…

— Larry Wilmore