Television Quotes · Page 167

I've watched 'General Hospital' for 35 years. I grew up with it. It holds such a place in my heart.

— Chandra Wilson

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

— Pedro Pascal

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

— Bennett Cerf

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

— Noel Edmonds

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

— Fran Lebowitz

I hate being on TV, hate dealing with media on TV. All that stuff, I don't like that.

— Tyronn Lue

I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

— Forest Whitaker

Well-adjusted families with run-of-the-mill problems aren't totally lacking in entertainment value, but they won't fill a prime-time schedule.

— Jackie Fuchs

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look…

— Alexander Kluge

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they…

— Seth Gabel

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets…

— Judith Martin

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all…

— Joanna Lumley

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm…

— Emeril Lagasse

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss…

— Diane Wakoski

We all have a different moral barometer, whether it is something we are okay with or not okay with. Like I find…

— Gareth Evans

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

— Suzanne Fields

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

— Red Skelton

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

— Dick Cavett

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

— Ludacris

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to…

— Joe Morton

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

— Neil Postman

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is…

— Kinky Friedman

“Reality Television is the 'Howard Stern-ation' of all that is bad with our media today”

— Manny Pacheco

Growing up, I did love television and film, and I always wish that I could see more representation.

— Michelle Buteau

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they…

— Bettany Hughes

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

— Les Brown

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

— Justin Theroux

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's…

— Amanda Hearst

I had never, ever thought about being on any 'Real Housewives' show, so it was interesting to actually be on one.

— Erika Jayne

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

— Karen Black

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

— Gene Roddenberry

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, Cersei Lannister had told him in the godswood.”

— George R.R. Martin

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the…

— Louis L'Amour

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me,…

— Paul Brown

I had difficulties getting into telly, because people say that if you've been in the theatre you'll shout, but then I did…

— Geraldine James

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want…

— Mackenzie Astin

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

A lot of television has become a bit like going to the circus to look at the two-headed woman.

— Michaela Strachan