Best Television Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.”

Player Television Guitar Fallen Guitar Player

“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

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Author:Chuck Lorre

“I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.”

Writing Jobs Television Presses Release Stations Boston Press Release

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.”

Watches Television Golf Driving Range

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.”

Television College Watching Television

Author:Jane Lynch

“Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.”

Made Today Wonderful Television Made It Classic Wonderful Life It's A Wonderful Life

Author:Leonard Maltin

“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

Thinking Made Film Pay Attention Records Television Machines My Favorite Pay Attention Visuals Tape Soundtracks Answering Machines

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.”

People Has Beens Made Government Today Names Results Policy Television Direct Radio Consent Behalf Government Policy Informed Consent

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

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Author:Ted McGinley

“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”

Shows Kids Used Watches Television Tvs Mad Agents Auditions

Author:Zosia Mamet

“As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.”

Ifs Watches Television Offensive Viewers

Author:Dave Navarro

“I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.”

Way Two Play Helping Together Names Television Bars Ice Chocolate Cream Ice Cream Here I Am Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.”

Film Artist Successful Comedy Television Series Including Roosters

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.”

People Enough Facts Voice Television Amount Conscious British British Television

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.”

People Rich Television Tvs Brands Attempting Get Rich

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

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Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.”

Stills Different Able Film Given Creative Television Lucky Areas Theatre Be Creative

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.”

Thinking Want Film Roles Television Right Now Women Right

Author:Sandra Oh

“Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television.”

People Ifs Mean Lost Television Yeah Enjoyed Developing My Time Apples Hints Sour

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.”

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Author:Lauren Potter

“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”

Men Facts Causes Brain Known Five Feet Television Tvs Proof Medical Damage Narcotics

Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.”

Television Tvs Adults Music Love I Love Music

Author:Donna Leon

“My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.”

People Stills Matter Shows Enjoy Teaching Television Right Now Essence Leaving Productions Something New Matter Of Time Food Network

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.”

Shows Home Wonder Comedy Television Drama My Friends Died Painful Pilots Back Home Television Shows Painful Death

Author:Eric Ladin

“My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.”

Film Television Involved My Family Theatre

Author:Missi Pyle

“It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.”

Sometimes Night Fun Land Television Theater Throwing Every Night Again And Again Horseshoes

Author:Missi Pyle

“I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.”

Thinking World Fun Love Is Television Models Actresses Handle

Author:Sara Paxton

“Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.”

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Author:Scott Pelley

“Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.”

Film Television Theater Broadway Film And Television

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.”

Knows Years Wells Character Television Benefits

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.”

People Knows Watches Television Tvs Computer

Author:Busy Philipps

“Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.”

Moving Television Shooting Indulgence Deadline

Author:Dev Patel

“Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.”

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Author:Jason Priestley

“The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.”

Film Chance Television Mines Censorship

Author:John Pilger

“I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.”

People I Can Hate Watches Television I Hate

Author:Martha Plimpton

“There are so many brilliant women on television right now.”

Television Right Now Brilliant

Author:Martha Plimpton

“See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

People Ifs I Can Shows Reality Boys Records Television Son My Son Hood Television Shows

Author:Master P

“Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.”

Trying Different Hard Home Kids Causes Practice Records Television Hard Work

Author:Master P

“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.”

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Author:Nick Park

“One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.”

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Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.”

Way Should Wanted Film Quality Television Quality Work

Author:Maggie Q

“I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.”

Thinking Way Television Shots Bad Things Aspire Cinematic

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.”

Faces Seeing Television Tvs Sick

Author:Michael J. Fox

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