Television Quotes · Page 202

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

— Graham Norton

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it’ll feed on any garbage.”

— Sean Chercover

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

We need our national broadcasters to bring people together, to reflect our common values, and to showcase these values to the world.

— Nicky Morgan

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to…

— Judy Reyes

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except…

— Andrzej Wajda

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off.…

— Angie Dickinson

Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on 'Manhattan Love Story,' Tuesday…

— Kurt Fuller

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access…

— Gordon Smith

I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five…

— James L. Brooks

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all…

— Colm Meaney

Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they…

— Tim Roth

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so…

— Nora Fatehi

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

— Shannon L. Alder

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

— Matt Stone

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had…

— Alexandra Paul

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

— Jonathan Franzen

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

I think anything with a serialized storyline is a perfect match for binge-watching.

— Scott Foley

I'm shy. I'm not outgoing. I'm a homebody. I am on TV, but you know, it's interesting. How much do I talk…

— Vanna White

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of…

— Yvette Mimieux

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

— Madonna Ciccone

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo…

— J. Irwin Miller

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around…

— Martin Freeman

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

— Elinor Lipman

The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the…

— Noah Hawley

It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's…

— Natalya Neidhart

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing

— Jeff Zucker

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

— Catherine Taylor

I didn't expect to be successful, but I am glad that so many people love the show.

— Brian Quinn

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I think all technology should be plug and play. I would say it's easier to set up a blog than it is…

— Graham Linehan

Because of the vast reach of television, there have been different angles that have been explored showcasing the life of transgenders.

— Rubina Dilaik

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

— Lisa Kudrow

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

— Frank Deford

I would never watch 'Lost' on TV; I'd just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a…

— Brandon Jay McLaren

In those stupid online polls to find the best sitcom ever, 'Father Ted' never gets the credit it deserves.

— Sean Lock