Television Quotes · Page 191

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

— Garry Shandling

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was…

— Joy Bryant

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of…

— Jean Baudrillard

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

— Gerard Depardieu

You are put into a certain box when you are on reality TV. People think you are stupid.

— Zara McDermott

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're…

— Jimmy Smits

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

— Victor Garber

We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like…

— Jane Espenson

Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a…

— David Copperfield

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you…

— Michael Learned

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the…

— Shiri Appleby

The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last…

— J.H. Wyman

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all…

— Neil Postman

When I sign on to a television show, I have to love that show and character so much, but this [Mistresses] was…

— Shannyn Sossamon

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I…

— Amos Oz

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

— Amy Poehler

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series…

— Todd Haynes

If we want to be considered among the shows that are worth watching, it's got to be really good. Ultimately, that's all…

— Tommy Dewey

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging…

— Douglas Coupland

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

— Rupert Murdoch

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

— Christiane Amanpour

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you…

— David Duchovny

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

— Ken Stott

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

— Michael Portillo

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

— Oliver Stone

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

— Bill Mumy

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

— Rupert Murdoch

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels…

— Gabourey Sidibe

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will…

— Harry Shearer

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing…

— Lennie James

I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.

— Hari Nef

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still…

— Jeff Zucker

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

— Daniel Tosh

I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.

— Gemma Collins

Television often cannot cover the passing of the torch without fanning the flames in the process.

— Martin Schram

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

— Dries van Noten

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what…

— Chris Harrison

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

— Daryl Hannah