Television Quotes

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

Television is where I cut my teeth.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

There was only so much television you could do.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don’t want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We’re hot.