Television Quotes · Page 159

At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

— Nancy Gibbs

Those who say they (television) give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste, and end by debauching it.

— Anonymous

I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in…

— Robin Wright

I don't like to be always in the press, or on television or always be on seen. It is not how I…

— Akshaye Khanna

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

— Andy Richter

The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford…

— Gordon Smith

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on…

— Lauren Alaina

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

— Alan Menken

The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out…

— Damon Lindelof

“It is interesting to note that in announcing the formation of the National Broadcasting Company, the Radio Corporation of America published a…

— Judith C. Waller

I don't want to turn on my TV and see only what's familiar, or what I can immediately relate to, or to…

— Shira Haas

I'd never been interested in wrestling; I never even watched it. But one day I met Vince McMahon, and he asked me…

— Sable

You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and…

— Mohsin Hamid

With film, depending on the job, it feels a bit more like camp as you are there for a finite period of…

— Greta Lee

Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner…

— Hugh Hewitt

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

— Robert Bresson

We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.

— Jonathan Bailey

I actually don't have a TV and I've been traveling so I've missing out on a lot of stuff.

— Nina Agdal

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy,…

— Andy Cohen

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that…

— Patrick J. Adams

As the media landscape continues to evolve, 'Conan' will continue to lead the evolution of what a talk show will be in…

— Kevin Reilly

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

— Rupert Murdoch

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

— James Wolk

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical…

— Michael Gambon

“What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.”

— Ben Fountain

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything -…

— Karl Pilkington

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

— Lili Reinhart

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because…

— Jimmy Bennett

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit…

— Kelly Clarkson

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

— Martin Milner

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking…

— Hank Stuever

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is…

— Ramin Djawadi

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what…

— Alan Moore

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

— Sophie Turner

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a…

— Mark Cuban

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to…

— Jeff Jarvis

I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much…

— Lindsay Davenport

My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a…

— Mike White

Crime shows are good, but I wouldn't like to watch too many of them, as they can be a downer.

— Mohnish Bahl