Television Quotes · Page 189

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

— Bethenny Frankel

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.

— Julie Plec

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

— Jeff Goldblum

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that…

— Win Butler

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

— Alain Resnais

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for…

— Meg Tilly

A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the…

— Miranda Raison

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the…

— Barack Obama

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's…

— Stephen Lang

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects…

— Alexander Stille

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or…

— Adrienne Rich

Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the…

— Jim Jarmusch

One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that…

— Carl Hart

We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. We always enjoyed doing that; it felt a bit like a different and fresh show…

— Bob Mortimer

I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.

— Michelle Visage

I don't think I'm in love with television. I think I'm in love with stand-up, and I'm in love with radio. And…

— Frank Skinner

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

— Gore Vidal

If anyone had said that they knew their show was going to run for 15 years, you'd say you're out of your mind.

— Chris Harrison

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks…

— Lennon Parham

When I realised that TV would be my playground, I decided to be content with what I had. I gave it my…

— Vikrant Massey

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

— Rick Alverson

TV is really fun because there are so many different things you can play with; you can tell a story in a…

— Kasie Hunt

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

— Gabriel Macht

I'd love to watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother without you pointing out Neil Patrick Harris is gay.

— Anonymous

My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'

— Chad Coleman

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

— Esme Creed-Miles

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

— Eric Dane

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on…

— Sonny Rollins

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

— Joan Severance

I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.

— Lily Tomlin

What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.

— Kevin Reilly

I don't watch a whole lot of TV, but since the time I was 10 or 11, I've watched MTV's 'The Challenge.'

— Kyle Larson

I think I did four 'Law & Order' episodes. I did two 'Criminal Intent,' one mothership, and one 'SVU.'

— Betty Gilpin

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

— Chris Hemsworth

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud…

— Roseanne Barr

“It looked very similar to the screwdriver used by the time-traveling hero of the dragons’ favorite television program.”

— Chris d'Lacey