Television Quotes · Page 163

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

— Greg Bryk

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find…

— Michelle MacLaren

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what…

— Evangeline Lilly

I never thought that I was going to be in a show as big as 'Sex Education.' It was quite a shock.

— Aimee Lou Wood

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together…

— Peter Krause

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

— Dana Carvey

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

— Anthony Bourdain

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

— Amy Sedaris

I think sometimes we get focused, especially in America, on the traditional broadcast networks as establishing something as being sort of mainstream,…

— Geoff Keighley

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye…

— Justine Larbalestier

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when…

— Janis Ian

There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting…

— Geoff Stults

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit…

— Kevin McCloud

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why…

— Robert Stack

If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and…

— Scott Glenn

Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or…

— Steven C. Harper

Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in…

— Kris Marshall

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some…

— Jason Alexander

So many older people are on a very small budget and just wouldn't be able to afford a TV licence.

— Vera Lynn

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

— Garry Shandling

I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.

— Leo Sayer

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

— Evan Rachel Wood

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

— Anonymous

I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they…

— Mekhi Phifer

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

— Arthur Miller

The Real Housewives' franchise is unabashedly lowbrow, and that is the secret to its success.

— Mary Katharine Ham

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

— Ted Turner

We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of…

— Judy Greer

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

— Jo Brand

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that;…

— Ted Allen

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to…

— Jack Gould

When you do a television series like 'Upstairs, Downstairs' - it took five years - you want to go back to the…

— Jean Marsh

That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!

— Adam F. Goldberg

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

— Mindy Grossman

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going…

— David Morse

People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to…

— Karla Crome

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or…

— Megan Follows

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.

— Annie Wersching

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of…

— David Foster Wallace