Television Quotes · Page 156

“Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.”

— Bryant McGill

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

— Ken Loach

What a lot of people don't realize is that on soaps, you only get one take to do it right.

— Matthew Bomer

To be fair, it's quite funny because in my career, I've never had a trainer for longer than one and a half…

— Matthijs de Ligt

Any place is really tough to wrestle until you get over. Once you get over, it doesn't matter if you're on television…

— Tommaso Ciampa

Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good…

— Travis Fimmel

If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

— Jennifer Nettles

People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.

— Lucy Hale

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me,…

— Louis C. K

Here's the thing: I come from a filmmaking background, so this concept of sort of overseeing a television show but not directing…

— Justin Simien

And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a…

— Michael Sheen

[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really…

— Ed Asner

Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top…

— Neil Portnow

[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could…

— John Noble

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from…

— John Lithgow

But, if you read science journals or the inside of Snapple caps, you might already know that watching TV is the closest…

— Sara Pascoe

You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that…

— Michelle McCool

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

— Ryan Murphy

I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'

— Jonathan Agnew

Unfortunately, my dancing skills never came to the fore, as I got involved in acting on television, where an actor doesn't get…

— Vikrant Massey

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

— Christopher Lloyd

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

— David Duchovny

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

— Elisha Cuthbert

I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and…

— Derek Hough

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

— Omari Hardwick

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

— Martin Parr

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective…

— Craig Venter

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

— Diane Guerrero

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion…

— Noam Chomsky

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and…

— Alexandra Breckenridge

You hate those shows that you hear about, ones that are so good but if you don't get them from the beginning,…

— Kristen Bell

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any…

— Ethel Merman

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there,…

— Dick Wolf

Almost all of my favorite shows are limited series. It just seems to be the better way to go.

— Aaron Stanford

'Line of Duty' does seem to be a bit old school as in people are happy to watch it, talk about it,…

— Adrian Dunbar

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“Was going to pitch it to VH1. Two Bites Are Better Than One. We were going to make millions.”

— J.R. Ward

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a…

— Pauley Perrette

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for…

— Judy Gold

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially…

— Michael Apted