Television Quotes · Page 218

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air,…

— Evan Davis

I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me.

— Simon Helberg

I am box-set girl; I buy into those big American series like 'The Sopranos' and 'Heroes.'

— Claudia Winkleman

I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.

— Daniel Dubois

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

— Carl Hiaasen

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

— Matt Bomer

I would rather watch 'Blackadder' thousands of times. I'm sure there are people who probably watch 'The Inbetweeners' that much.

— James Buckley

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

— Roger Avary

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been…

— Jim Rash

Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very…

— Charles Shaughnessy

It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then,…

— KRS-One

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares,…

— Ruth Buzzi

Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my…

— Sabrina Carpenter

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time…

— Nick Kroll

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov…

— Josh Gad

I don't have a television in my house. I haven't owned one in years. In truth, it's about mental health for me.…

— Shalita Grant

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close,…

— Brooke Shields

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

— Richard Armitage

“Just four months after the show first aired, it had more than forty million listeners every single evening.”

— R. Scott Williams

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

— Christopher Titus

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow…

— William Devane

It's normal when there's a new show on the air to say this is the new 'Game of Thrones' or this is…

— Alexander Dreymon

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and…

— James Garner

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back…

— Will Arnett

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

— Stephen Fry

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and…

— Joel McHale

I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.

— Kerry Kennedy

It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he…

— David Brock

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane…

— Matthew Perry

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on.…

— Edie Falco

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of…

— Charles R. Swindoll

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Why I turn on the TV: 10% to watch shows. 90% to use it as background noise so I feel less lonely…

— Anonymous

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

— Errol Morris

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see…

— Hannah Simone

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'

— Greg Kinnear

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best…

— Dennis Farina

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only…

— Rufus Sewell

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and…

— Jeffrey Tambor

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

— Ralph H. Baer