Top 1200 Television Shows Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

Swayamvar' is one of the most anticipated and sought after shows on television and I am elated to be a part of it.

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.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to do television. But then it became this thing where movie actors didn't do television - they certainly didn't do commercials, because that just meant the end of your career.

You used to have those Saturday morning television shows. You had to do your bit. You had to go on and promote your new release. I quite enjoyed it, actually. You had the parents watching them, and they must have liked what they were seeing, so they'd encourage their kids. And then they'd end up bringing them to the shows.

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.

Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows.

I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.

I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.

'Tenali Rama' is one of the most popular shows on Indian Television and it feels great working in the show.

Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the great television writers that have come on will be really successful in bringing us something really unique. We are looking to put on these big canvas shows, and Black Sails is going to fit into that. The scripts have been terrific. Everything that we are trying to do is incredibly ambitious, and this is certainly in that category.

I feel like it's extremely rare to find a female who's bisexual and not either lesbian or straight on television shows.

Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream era I would have loved to have been part of in Hollywood then is happening right now, but it's happening on television, with these big complicated story arcs and real character-driven shows and sheer ambiguity left and right.

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

I started taking my dance seriously and I have been choreographing for corporate and television shows.

I auditioned for everything. It was daily, relentless. Independent films, chewing gum commercials, television shows.

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.

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there's no rhyme or reason.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted 'The Bake Off' to be an antidote to that.

In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That's kind of embarrassing when you think about it.

My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.

There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.

I have been a VJ in New York before. I used to host shows on local television there.

There's a gender gap throughout television and it's very pronounced in morning TV since these shows are mostly meant for women.

People don't really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television.

I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

I have always been on television in cricket hosting, anchoring reality shows.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people that played on our television set, they just felt like family to me. And I believed in my heart, as a little kid, that I would be doing that someday and I would know all those people and we would be friends.

The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

Especially in television, when you do visual effects, what you're predominantly doing is trying to add value to TV shows that otherwise don't have any.

I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.

I think its going to be continually tougher on the big networks as more cable channels do really interesting television. The big networks have a choice to make: Do we try to be all things to all people and get the shows that will deliver 20 million viewers a week? Are we the McDonald's of television? Or are we going to try to be more specific?

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

Most of the network television audience now is primarily women, but I think that's because the shows are developed to appeal to women. I don't know that there are too many shows that appeal to guys anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but I think that it may have something to do with the fact that most development staffs are women.

I think right now there's more TV shows than ever. You've got network, you've got cable, you've got Netflix, you've got Hulu, even Amazon is putting out original content. So there's a lot of opportunities to find fans. You don't have to have a huge audience. You can cater to the people that like your stuff. So there is a boom in comedy and television and stand-up too through podcasting and all the different talk shows.

They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.