Top 1200 Cable TV Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When the companies started making made-for-TV movies, people thought it was a fluke. Who would watch that? Because it's in your TV screen and not in a theater. Remember that?

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

I did one cable news hit during my first 10 months in Congress.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.

I was so desperate to get a job on TV (with no money), that I dressed as an old lady, went to the TV channel and said to security that I was the producer's grandma and had brought him lunch.

The 'X Factor' is the biggest show on TV and the other shows are just copying us with their silly chairs. Simon Cowell is the king of TV and if he's not involved then it's not good.

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.

We're not actors, we're people behaving like ourselves on TV. We're both [me and Gordon Ramsay] exactly who we are on TV. I don't think either one is an exaggerated version. You just have to be who you are.

With people all the way from 17 to 2... 'iCarly' often is the No. 1 show, not just on cable but all of television.

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

Through the auditions and the process of 'Sonali Cable,' I realised that I want to be an actor.

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show.

I didn't have cable growing up. I never saw ESPN or GameDay.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

We were seeing TV becoming increasingly cinematic, with stuff like 'True Detective.' And 'Game of Thrones' opened up 'genre TV' and showed it doesn't have to be cheesy.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

I don't have regular TV; I have Apple TV, so I pick what I watch, which is perhaps not a good thing. I read all the big publications and also listen to a lot of podcasts.

What's fun about shooting exteriors on the street in Toronto is that there are cable cars.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

I'm truly excited to be a part of 'Tu Mere Agal Bagal Hai' and SAB TV. This will be my first tryst with a comedy TV series on the small screen.