Television Quotes · Page 199

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it…

— Ashley Wagner

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

— William Devane

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in…

— Colin Morgan

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

— Jeffrey Hunter

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

— Emmitt Smith

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is…

— Bobby Fischer

If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature…

— Roger Ailes

'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

— Mahershala Ali

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of…

— Charles W. Pickering

When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with…

— Alan Chambers

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You know, its interesting to me that so much of the population is living under the poverty line, but when you look…

— Kim Wayans

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent…

— Michael Mann

I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,'…

— Finn Wittrock

The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just…

— Mannie Fresh

BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on…

— James Corden

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

— CM Punk

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

— Christopher Eccleston

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

— Don Cornelius

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

— Chris Isaak

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

— Matt Passmore

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a…

— Steve Jobs

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

— Groucho Marx

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

— Michael Learned

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

— Tariq Ali

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

— Tina Fey

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for…

— Jade Hassoune

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

— Edwin Newman

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

— Steven Moffat

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on…

— Kalup Linzy

I've been turned down for a lot of TV because they didn't think there was a place for Divine on television.

— Divine

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

— Vince McMahon

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

— Bryan Fuller

I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of…

— David Nutter

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

— Henry Blodget

There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one…

— Pernell Roberts

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a…

— Marc Cherry

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read…

— Sam Crawford

It's not every network that's calling up a perimenopausal woman who sings cabaret to do a TV show.

— Bridget Everett

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

— Elijah Wood