Television Quotes · Page 178

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video…

— Kate Bush

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

— Sudha Chandran

'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.

— Charlie Brooker

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

— Marc Maron

Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.

— Demetri Martin

I think what 'Emmerdale' are excited about is that my exit storyline is the catalyst for other storylines for characters like Chrissie…

— Kelvin Fletcher

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

— David Oyelowo

I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a…

— Eric McCormack

Nothing runs forever. How you handle it, the most important thing is how you respect your audience, how you respect your cast,…

— Nina Tassler

It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of…

— Neil Marshall

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance.…

— Miranda Otto

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has…

— Ronald Steel

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise…

— Jamie Hyneman

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic…

— Bil Keane

Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by…

— Stephen Colbert

If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.

— Rumer Willis

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

— Blake Anderson

More people than not have seen me on television in swim shorts, so I don't have any problem stripping down.

— Ian Ziering

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or…

— Miranda Otto

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

— Henry Golding

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

— A'Lelia Bundles

I used to watch 'Hollyoaks' before I joined the show, and I always loved the McQueens. To be part of that now…

— Mandip Gill

I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

— Dave Attell

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

— Dan Harmon

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

— Lisa Lutz

I bought myself a juke box with my first bit of TV money and since then I don't think I've ever really…

— Lee Mack

There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they…

— Alex Hirsch

I spent a long time on a big studio sitcom, 'Baddiel's Syndrome,' for Sky, and got no audience.

— David Baddiel

There's no particular formula for 'Lost.' I mean, I think there were a few attempts to follow it and copy it, but…

— Terry O'Quinn

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to…

— Jimmy Fallon

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.

— Ben Nicholas

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

— Rob Reiner

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

— Glen Powell

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

— John Cho

Would you please turn on the television. I'd like to see if I'm still alive and how I'm doing.

— Murray Haydon

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

— Seth MacFarlane

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

— Gary David

I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for…

— Ethan Suplee