Television Quotes · Page 192

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

— David Duchovny

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Having traders elbow you while you are doing live TV is a good education in something.

— Margaret Brennan

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better…

— Michael Douglas

Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.

— Anonymous

There's a degree to which leaving an afternoon show to go to America to present telly is borderline delusional.

— Richard Bacon

You can't put a show in a boring format to young kids. They need to relate to it.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that…

— Nancy Dubuc

My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing…

— Eva Longoria

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little.…

— Zoe Ball

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were…

— Dylan Bruce

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than…

— Kevin Conroy

I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it…

— Remi Aubuchon

I personally love working for finite series as it's important to convey that stories need not be stretched; they can get over…

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV,…

— Douglas Wilson

I think no one would dispute that 'Chopped' is a highly athletic television show.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour -…

— Sterling K. Brown

We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about…

— Rupert Friend

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used…

— Jeff Daniels

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

— Marianne Williamson

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

— Zosia Mamet

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run,…

— Robert Greenblatt

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I…

— David Mandel

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in…

— Marc Webb

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

— Christina Ricci

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure…

— Valentina Tereshkova

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

— Lee Hazlewood

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

— Dan Rather

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

— Lexi Underwood

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

— John Cleese

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

— Michael Emerson

I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious…

— Mary H.K. Choi

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

— Nolan North

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

I do have a rule about how much I will take on - the last thing you want is to be on…

— Phillip Schofield

“It's hard to start a revolution when your face is six feet from your television.”

— Grant Peeples

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or…

— Madchen Amick

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and…

— Rhys Darby