Big sur Quote by Julie Chen

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

— Robert Goulet

'Big Brother,' I can't believe people watch. It's just people whispering to each other for hours and then some silly challenge like, who can…

— Joel McHale

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

— Guy Martin

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's…

— Kevin Hart

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the…

— Charlotte Rae

I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.

— Dave Myers

“David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is given us…

— David Lipsky

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together…

— Joyce DeWitt

[George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did an HBO…

— Jay Mohr

After a while some of the houseguests at Big Brother can become a little bit high maintenance so they're going to find everything to…

— Julie Chen

I used to think like a presenter in real life: ok, we've got five minutes, this has to be a great five minutes... Mania.

— Simon Amstell

My role on 'Silicon Valley' was so small that I didn't have a lot of influence anyway in the show. There are four guys…

— Daniel Lyons