Television Quotes · Page 174

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

— Atom Egoyan

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way…

— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr

I don't have time to watch TV. The only things I watch are 'Miss Marple' and 'Midsommer Murders.' They are the only…

— Arlene Phillips

I love 'Friends.' I've seen every one probably 37,000 times, but I can watch 'Friends' all night. You just forget how amazing…

— Justin Hartley

The TV that I knew growing up, and I think the TV that a lot of people knew, it's just not completely…

— Nate Bargatze

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

— Willie Geist

The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand…

— Ann Landers

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that…

— Joan Cusack

I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the…

— Dan Brown

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I…

— Carole Ann Ford

Yeah, you can explore a lot more. Every one of the storylines is multi-faceted, so there are so many directions that it…

— Mireille Enos

For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's…

— Jeph Loeb

I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch…

— Whitney Port

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative…

— Zach Woods

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get…

— Ben Bass

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's…

— Kevin Spacey

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

— J.R. Ward

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of…

— Jason Priestley

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in…

— Jacki Weaver

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

— Gina Torres

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

— Melissa McCarthy

I'm a big fan of TV on demand. I'm embarrassed to say what I watch. It's the worst crap.

— Michael Bastian

Coming from a conservative family from Mangalore, I had hardly watched any movies or television during my student days.

— Anushka Shetty

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

— June Diane Raphael

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

— Margaret Mead

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

— John Slattery

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next…

— Alfred Gough

TV takes up all your time, and you can't do anything else when you are shooting for a show.

— Ishita Dutta

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

— Drew Carey

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I never would've thought of going on 'Strictly,' I mean, I went on because it's my mum's favourite programme in the world.

— Rachel Riley

I don't want to feel like I'm a television host - because I don't think that I am. What I really want…

— James Corden

I've always loved working on series. The crew feels like a family and it's nice to have a regular gig that you…

— Kay Panabaker

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going…

— Julian Fellowes

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

— Robert Adams

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

— David Schwimmer

'Twin Peaks' is like a movie; 'China Beach' is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television,…

— Robert Picardo

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her…

— Uri Geller

I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.

— Graham Yost