Television Quotes · Page 169

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

— Jonathan Groff

“Putting a television in a child's bedroom may be setting them up for excess weight gain over the next few years, suggests…

— Anonymous

I've worked on 30-something different TV shows, and most of the people can't stand each other.

— Theo Rossi

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of…

— Jeph Loeb

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

— Gena Rowlands

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

— Daniel Baldwin

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

— Helen Baxendale

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

— David Charvet

On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll…

— Luke Evans

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people…

— Idris Elba

We started to have more women and little girls in our audience, where it started to be 40 percent female that sat…

— Nikki Bella

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be…

— Dolly Parton

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect,…

— Gary Ross

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're…

— David Oyelowo

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow…

— Hank Stuever

I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at…

— Lauren Bacall

I have played many negative roles in films, and television gives me an opportunity to break through this image and portray another…

— Raza Murad

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

— Raymond Chandler

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

— Ian Hislop

The gang on 'GMB' is what really makes it. I love Ben Shephard, Richard Arnold, Susanna Reid and even Piers Morgan.

— Kate Garraway

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

— Allison Mack

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone…

— John Slattery

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

— Mariella Frostrup

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

— Eddie Kaye Thomas

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

— Pete Cashmore

As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

— Hank Stuever

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

— Marcus Allen

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as…

— Elinor Smith

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

— Phil Donahue

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

— Janina Gavankar

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

— David Walliams

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.

— Bruce H. Lipton

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

— Reggie Lee

With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.

— Christopher Jackson

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

I like to watch shows that are different from my world and still see myself in them.

— Shira Haas

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

— Walt Kelly

I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd…

— Tony Campolo