Television Quotes · Page 162

I hate when people in a commercial have more fun in 30 seconds than I will ever have in my whole life.

— Anonymous

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

— Phyllis Schlafly

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if…

— Katie Couric

I loved 1990s television: 'The Fast Show,' 'Father Ted,' 'Harry Enfield.' 'Clive Anderson Talks Back.'

— Josh Widdicombe

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

— Penn Jillette

I could have done a lot of things on TV, but I don't want to be recognised in the street. I'm not…

— Sylvie Guillem

“Image can be so powerful that it can create its own reality. That’s exactly what show business does better than anything else.”

— Anonymous

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

— Perez Hilton

I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in…

— Charlie Brooker

On a network show, you can get six days to score an episode. On 'Outlander,' because it's premium cable and because of…

— Bear McCreary

I feel TV has a wider reach in terms of audience. Also, if you have successful shows - I had quite a…

— Mohnish Bahl

I think the nice thing about our show is that its not like a cartoon, where you hit somebody with a hammer…

— Gillian Jacobs

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my…

— Martha Plimpton

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years.…

— Mary Harron

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a…

— Michael Schur

Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a…

— Carrie Preston

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

— Orson Welles

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy…

— Jon Cryer

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

— Claire Danes

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

— Cara Buono

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels…

— Maggie Siff

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

— Will Wright

A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who…

— Nancy Dubuc

We love genre, but in film if you make a genre film it has to all be about the genre. We were…

— Ross Duffer

People think I do reality shows and stuff like that, but the most amount of my time is occupied by live shows.

— Rahul Vaidya

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes…

— Rob Lowe

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show…

— Bo Burnham

There is some stigma around reality television, and I've never quite understood it.

— Zara McDermott

Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does…

— Ty Burrell

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

— Jake M. Johnson

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that…

— Steve Backshall

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles…

— Courtney Ford

Turning on the TV: 10% to watch shows and 90% to use it as background noise. Just so I feel less lonely…

— Anonymous

When it first started, I loved the fact 'This Morning' was an adult version of Saturday morning television.

— Phillip Schofield

Reality shows like 'SaReGaMaPa' are a huge platform for young talent. Thanks to television, they have more exposure than we could even…

— Bappi Lahiri

My interest in wrestling began when I was a little kid, watching NWA and WWF on television.

— Josh Barnett

Medical-genre shows have been around forever, they will be around forever, and I think this [Code Black] is a great iteration of…

— Rob Lowe

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

— Steven Soderbergh