“It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.” PeopleFirstsShowsNextMillionsFiveTelevisionTvsMonthsSellsNext DayTelevision Shows Author:Bob Hope
“First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.” FirstsBookShowsDesignTelevisionProductsDesignerWorking ItTelevision ShowsDecoratorsDesign Work Author:Nate Berkus
“I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.” MadeShowsCuttingTelevisionTeethTelevision Shows Author:Patrick J. Adams
“When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed.” IfsCharacterShowsThreeLove YouTelevisionMonthsFingersHatedTelevision ShowsThree MonthsPaychecksFingers Crossed Author:Jordana Brewster
“Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.” MenShowsGenerationsTelevisionSpidersTelevision ShowsSpider Man Author:Jeph Loeb
“First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.” PeopleFirstsShowsRunningTelevisionIncrediblesDisappearConsumedTelevision Shows Author:J.H. Wyman
“Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.” ThinkingWayWantShowsCertainTurnsTelevisionStrangeNegativeLegacyCinemaSci FiViewersTelevision ShowsTurn OffConnotationBarges Author:J.H. Wyman
“I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.” RealShowsAbleTelevisionHorrorTreatsGenreBeing RealTelevision Shows Author:Alexandra Breckenridge
“'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.” ShowsFictionMysteryTelevisionScience FictionMy FavoriteFringeTelevision ShowsInception Author:Jill Scott
“Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.” PeopleShowsTogetherInterestHoursTelevisionFineCreatingJokesSittingSpendingStringsTapeHobbiesTelevision ShowsSitting AroundBangingFunny People Author:Jon Stewart
“Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.” HumansShowsSuccessfulTelevisionElementsFindingsFormulasTelevision ShowsCoca ColaRum Book:A Book Source: A Book
“Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.” ShowsWeekProduceTelevisionDirectorsDirectProducersEpisodesTelevision Shows Author:Eric Balfour
“With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.” ShowsBigsFightingWeekTelevisionBattleScreensTelevision ShowsDetente Author:Alfred Gough
“I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.” IfsWantI CanShowsWatchesTelevisionTelevision ShowsIpadsDownloadsItunes Author:Joel Silver
“When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.” WayGivingWritingTryingPlayShowsActorsNaturalTelevisionTvsJazzSeriesTelevision ShowsTv SeriesPlaying Jazz Author:Remi Aubuchon
“Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?” ShowsNextHoursTelevisionFishingTelevision ShowsFelons Author:Christopher Titus
“I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.” WritingMeanChildrenShowsSongTelevisionAlbumsMy FutureTelevision Shows Author:Dolly Parton
“When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.” ThinkingMenYearsSometimesShowsMorningWeekTelevisionHe ManMastersTvsJazzRadioMidstChicagoLegendsEpisodesTelevision ShowsUpstairsPbs Author:Ramsey Lewis
“My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.” KindArtPlayShowsFatherTelevisionEducationalVarietySundayAfternoonInvitedTelevision ShowsSunday Afternoons Author:John Sebastian
“Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.” BelieveLooksKindSometimesShowsMightWalksTelevisionTiredChecksAwfulBelieve In MeTelevision Shows Author:Johnny Carson
“The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.” WorldNeedsIdeasReasonShowsGovernmentPoliticalIndividualStarsDemocracyWonderfulTelevisionAmbitionInstitutionsCourtInternationalNobleCriminalsLoyaltyDoctrineTriumphTelevision Shows Author:James Lileks
“The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.” GivingDoeShowsDifferencesMinutesExampleTelevisionExpressionMajorsEssenceThirtyConfinedFreedom Of ExpressionTelevision ShowsMotion Pictures Author:Rod Serling
“One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.” IfsWantPersonsHas BeensUseShowsLawHappenedTelevisionDrugSellsTelevision ShowsDrug Laws Author:Carl Hart
“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.” PeopleYearsShowsFoundNiceStreetsFrontsTelevisionSurpriseBritishLondonBritainPublishingTelevision ShowsDenmarkBritish Television Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsHas BeensShowsJobsLastsLostLeftFeltKnow HowTelevisionYears AgoExtrasRoughHostQuartersIntroducingCompassPatchesPartingTelevision ShowsRough Patches Author:Dayna Devon
“I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.” PeopleIfsMeanShowsNightWeekTeamTelevisionWindMaterialsSittingBunchHostEvery NightTelevision ShowsPayrollDays Of The WeekLetterman Author:Bruce Vilanch
“You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.” WayWritingShowsBigsMightTurnsWaitingSidesTelevisionMaterialsBiggerTelevision ShowsBigger And BetterBigger And Better Things Author:Ice Cube
“There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.” WantMomentsShowsSeemsTermTelevisionRight NowIncrediblesTelevision Shows Author:Simon Pegg
“People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.” PeopleCountryUseShowsGovernmentAmericaUsedGuyOrderCoursesTelevisionAgentsSarcasmArticlesConspiracyCiaTelevision ShowsRecruitCia Agents Author:Bassem Youssef
“"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many of them, but that was where I - but actually oddly enough though, they were teaching camera terminology at the same time in this acting class, so I actually was able to understand what rack focus and whip pan and all that stuff meant.” KnowsMadeEnoughShowsAbleStuffActingClassFocusTeachingTelevisionCamerasWhipsTelevision ShowsDukesRacksActing ClassesTerminologyDukes Of Hazzard Author:Quentin Tarantino
“As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.” ThinkingShowsTodayArtistPerfectChangedTelevisionIndustryInternetGood ThingsCraftsInstantYoutubeTelevision Shows Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.” ThinkingYearsShowsTelevisionSummerExcitingTelevision Shows Author:James Wolk
“I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFeelsHas BeensShowsPurposeDifficultViewsTelevisionPaintingTvsLgbtAccurateExaggeratedTelevision ShowsComedic Author:Billy Eichner
“Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.” WayWritingMomentsShowsRunningNightChoicesThreeFourWeekTelevisionI RealizedTelevision Shows Author:Judd Apatow
“Movies that I remember working on, or things that I remember working on, are things that took years of struggle and strife to get them off the ground or get them in front of the public. You don't have that kind of strife or whatever with a television show. It has an automatic platform. You go in, you do your job, and then it goes on air, and that's that.” YearsKindShowsJobsRememberStruggleAirFrontsTelevisionGoes OnPlatformsStrifeTelevision Shows Author:Brady Corbet
“At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.” IfsEndsCharacterShowsTelevisionThe End Of The DayTelevision ShowsMain Characters Author:Hiro Murai
“When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.” IfsShowsMightWonderfulTelevisionProjectsMediumsTelevision Shows Author:Justin Hartley
“I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.” KnowsDoneShowsActorsTelevisionTelevision Shows Author:Robert Englund
“Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.” DoneUseShowsNamesTelevisionTypeIncludingWarmFeaturesComplimentPopularityCircusTelevision ShowsEstimationLoving FamilyLettermanTakeoff Author:Bil Keane
“Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.” PeopleSometimesEnoughShowsTelevisionLike YouHanging OutDepressingTelevision Shows Author:Scott Aukerman
“Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.” YearsKindShowsRealityFourTelevisionTrumpEightStuckFour YearsTelevision ShowsReality Television Author:Van Jones
“I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.” YearsShowsStarsTelevisionMetsShootingMovie StarTelevision ShowsKirk Author:Steven Spielberg
“I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.” ThinkingTwoShowsTelevisionProudSeasonsGentlemanTelevision ShowsPassed AwayCrackersReally Popular Author:Boti Bliss
“This show [Timeless] is absolutely epic. I simply can't believe the production value for the episodes. Each episode is creating a new world. I just can't think of another television show that trumps the Hindenburg to the 1970s week to week.” ThinkingWorldBelieveShowsValuesWeekTelevisionTrumpCreatingProductionsNew WorldEpisodesEpicTimelessTelevision ShowsHindenburg Author:Misha Collins
“Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read about in a book or watch in a movie or a television show - and in this case, in the Republican primary, Trump was not the villain.” BookStoriesShowsLyingAnswersWatchesCasesMediaTelevisionTrumpRepublicanFolksPrimariesVillainTelevision Shows Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.” FeelsBookShowsAsksHoursAttentionHalfTelevisionReaderDisciplineTweetTelevision ShowsHalf HoursReally Deep Author:Ben H. Winters
“If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related, that can be so stimulating for them. Anything that makes children engage and think - and love what the story is about - can only bring the most enormous rewards.” IfsThinkingChildrenBookPlayStoriesShowsFilmTelevisionAnd LoveRewardsEnormousRelatedTelevision Shows Author:Julie Andrews
“I really do think that Breaking Bad is probably the greatest television show that's ever been made. Just in terms of, everything, it's flawless. I can't think of one flaw with Breaking Bad. Every other show, even shows that I really, really love, they're not perfect. Breaking Bad, to me, is a perfect show.” ThinkingMadeI CanShowsTermPerfectTelevisionFlawsNot PerfectTelevision ShowsFlawless Author:Scott Clifton
“Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.” WayMayShowsFilmSidesTelevisionGoes OnCoupleTelevision ShowsLife Goes On Author:Norman Lear
“I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'” ShowsActingTelevisionTelevision Shows Author:Logan Lerman