Top 285 Telly Quotes & Sayings

If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

Phillip Schofield has always been my primary crush. Sure, I danced in front of the telly when Shakin' Stevens was on Top of the Pops, but that was because my rudimentary grasp of how telly works made this five-year-old think she could be seen by him. So that was less love, more showing off.

A lot of the clothes I wear on telly are second-hand.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints.

Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.

I don't have hobbies. Other than watching telly and walking my dogs, what I do is work. That's who I am.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

Pretty much every comic that you see live is going to be slighter ruder, slightly darker and slightly more scary. But there are restrictions when you're on the telly. I'm not trying to rude it up for live. I just have to restrict myself on the telly.

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

There is a sense that if you're not on the telly then you might have died. I'm aware that's how people largely judge you.

Saturday mornings, you've got three hours of live telly and it's really forgiving.

I choose YouTube over telly.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

When youre on telly, youre defined by what you do on telly.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.

MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely, but my generation didn't watch telly.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I never really wanted to be on telly.

I haven't watched telly for years.

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.

And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

I don't think telly actors are inferior to Bollywood stars in any way.

There's so much to see and do in Austrailia, but a lot of it is outside so I've ben immersing myself in their telly.

Making the 'Big Show' has been the most fun I've had on telly.

I'm a busy girl, and I've been switching gears from telly and putting my heart and soul into music.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

I don't want people turning on the telly and going, 'Dear God, not him again.'

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

I don't do this watching telly thing. I realise I am strange.

Whether it is fame, love or respect, the Telly world has given me everything that I craved for.

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. "Film," "movies," and "cinema" are all synonyms as far as I'm concerned; but telly is different. It's just a plodding we've-done-this-scene, we've-done-that-scene and it never becomes this new other thing.

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.