Television Quotes · Page 181

I just hate television that's out to make people cry because other people like to see people cry.

— Prue Leith

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

— William Arthur Ward

But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.

— Dana Reeve

Whenever I talk about how good season two of 'The Comeback' is, people ask, 'Do I have to see season one?' And…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool…

— Thu Tran

I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do…

— Sandra Bernhard

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

— Marshall McLuhan

Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts…

— Steven Yeun

The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can't get an audience that way. They…

— Jeri Ryan

I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are…

— Randall Wallace

Here's my idea for another one of those reality-based TV shows: No Survivors! One by one, a psychopathic serial killer tracks down…

— Nikhil Saluja

I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people,…

— Paget Brewster

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just…

— Mark Duplass

My lifestyle, my life, everything has changed because of this show. Has it made me look different? Yes, it's changed everything for…

— Theo Rossi

'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth,…

— Edward Kitsis

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of…

— Hilarie Burton

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over…

— Taraji P. Henson

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

— Tyson Chandler

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

— Kevin Feige

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and…

— Barry Levinson

“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.”

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

— Vatsal Sheth

I think people expect - when you have success in whatever field it is, and I think ours especially, when people see…

— Scottie Scheffler

Remember, a TV pilot is like an experiment. You try it out, and if it works, then they make it a series.…

— Bear McCreary

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

— Jonah Hill

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a…

— Stephen Covey

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it.…

— Callie Khouri

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

— Richard Rogers

I wasn't hip to 'Samurai Jack' until I saw it, but then I was all, 'This show is awesome!'

— John DiMaggio

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

— Milton Mayer

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

— Milton Berle

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

— Gilbert Gottfried

Every one of us wants to play in the Champions League. They all want to stand on the field and not watch…

— Joel Matip

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

— Marshall McLuhan

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to…

— Benjamin Bratt

Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

— Alex Hirsch

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and…

— James L. Brooks

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be…

— Robert Covington

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

— Erin Foster