Television Quotes · Page 205

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

— Tom Shales

I want people of my generation who've never seen 'Endeavour' before to enjoy this series.

— Shaun Evans

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play.…

— Ray Bradbury

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

— Bill Moyers

When you need hits the next day, I watch episodes of 'New Girl.' That's my superstition. It gets me locked in.

— Corey Seager

“Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?”

— Adlai Stevenson

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged…

— Aimee Teegarden

I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television.…

— Donald Trump

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids…

— Jon Scieszka

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.…

— David Attenborough

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and…

— Tom Conti

There is a huge fan base, they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the…

— Charles Dance

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing…

— Mariella Frostrup

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the…

— Grant Bowler

You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going…

— Damon Lindelof

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously…

— Michelle Dockery

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

— Jason Gann

If you are on a reality show and you care how you look in the long term, you should watch it.

— Spencer Pratt

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

— Vatsal Sheth

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

This isn't just 'Scrubs' with new actors. 'Cougar Town' has a heart to it that's all its own.

— Busy Philipps

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality,…

— Noel Fielding

“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.”

— David Foster Wallace

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

— David Oyelowo

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

— Damon Lindelof

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what…

— Abbi Jacobson

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

— Ann Dowd

It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely…

— Patrick Duffy

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal…

— Nancy Dubuc

In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television,…

— Merle Dandridge

My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.

— Siddharth Shukla

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those…

— Jim Beaver

I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be…

— NeNe Leakes

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

— Tom Selleck

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

— Rosie O'Donnell

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

— Grant Bowler

Meth addicts will never understand how hard it is to withdraw from Breaking Bad.

— Anonymous

I had stopped watching TV long back and I used to suggest everyone also to not watch it at all.

— Sanjay Mishra

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

— Rebecca Eaton