Top 1200 Television Show Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television - a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the 'Strictly' judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

Even on television, it is all about the script of the show and my character. It has nothing to do with whether I am bagging the lead role or any other.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Anytime I can watch television, I usually do the reality show stuff unless it is, of course, 'Breaking Bad' or 'Homeland.' Then, I am all over it.

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

My mother says my first television experience was hiding behind the sofa watching John Pertwee's 'Doctor Who.' I loved that show.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

I really wanted to change the idea of what is possible and to show that 'deaf can' and what better place to do that than on national television?

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high school, I found out I got the role. It was unimaginable! I learned so much from that show.

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences: That's television. Keith Jackson is television. So are Kermit the Frog, instant replay, and the Fiesta Bowl.

Man, 'Twin Peaks' ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

I loved 1990s television: 'The Fast Show,' 'Father Ted,' 'Harry Enfield.' 'Clive Anderson Talks Back.'

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

The significance of playing a South Asian character that's a lead role in a network primetime television show is certainly not lost on me.

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.

That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

I'm just looking at other opportunities, television... not so much another existing reality show, but more about creating stuff.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

I only watch 'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' on television. It's my favourite show and I absolutely love the bubbly character of Ruhi.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.