Tv Shows famous quotes
03-23-2025
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
-- Adam Pally -
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
-- Adora Svitak -
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
-- Alan Ball -
I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself.
-- Ali Larter -
If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.
-- Alison Lundergan Grimes -
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
-- Allison Mack -
I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
-- Amber Benson -
There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.
-- Amy Ryan -
There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
-- Amy Smart -
You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
-- Andrew Shue -
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
-- Andy Griffith -
Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.
-- Armond White -
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
-- Barry Lyga -
I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.
-- Bea Arthur -
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
-- Bear Grylls -
Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.
-- Bill Maher -
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.
-- Bob Iger -
I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.
-- Bob Saget -
I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.
-- Bobby Darin -
I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.
-- Bobby Flay -
I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.
-- Boris Gelfand -
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
-- Bradley Whitford -
It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.
-- Bruce Nash -
It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'
-- Bryan Cranston -
I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
-- Cam Gigandet -
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
-- Caroline Corr -
Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek
-- Casper Van Dien -
People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.
-- Cat Deeley -
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
-- Charlaine Harris -
I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon
-- Charlie Hunnam -
It's been great to come to the U.S. and not have people judge me because of what they saw or heard when I was 16 and on a TV show. They're actually judging me on the fact that I can sing and how my personality is now. Which I think is great.
-- Cher Lloyd -
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.
-- China Chow -
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.
-- Chris Abani -
You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!
-- Cindy Margolis -
And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.
-- Clay Aiken -
I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
-- Clay Aiken -
I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.
-- Colin Quinn -
Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. He’s got everything it takes to be top notch.
-- Colm Meaney -
I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
-- Damon Lindelof -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.
-- Dan Gelber -
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
-- Dan Harmon -
My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.
-- Danai Gurira -
My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.
-- Danny Masterson -
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
-- Danny Strong -
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
-- Danny Strong -
I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.
-- Dave Franco -
I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.
-- David Caruso -
It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
-- David Krumholtz -
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
-- David Schwimmer -
Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.
-- David Wain -
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
-- David Walliams -
Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.
-- Derek Sivers -
I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.
-- Dhani Jones -
And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
-- Dick Wolf -
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
-- Dominic West -
When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.
-- Dylan Walsh -
I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'
-- Ed Sheeran -
To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
-- Elisabeth Moss -
You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.
-- Elisha -
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.
-- Enrico Colantoni -
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
-- Eric McCormack -
My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
-- Gail Porter -
There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.
-- Gillian Jacobs -
Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.
-- Gina Bellman -
One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.
-- Glen Mazzara -
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.
-- Grace Helbig -
Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.
-- Greg Evigan -
When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.
-- Guy Oseary -
Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.
-- Hannibal Buress -
I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
-- Henry Rollins -
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
The noise you hear after people see something you do--whether it's a TV show or a movie--that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.
-- J. J. Abrams -
On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
-- J.K. Simmons -
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
-- Jack Black -
Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.
-- Jack Dee -
You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
-- Jack McBrayer -
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
-- Jack Osbourne -
Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.
-- James Darren -
What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
-- James Gandolfini -
I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.
-- James Hetfield -
Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
-- James MacArthur -
I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"
-- Jamie Bell -
I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
-- Jane Badler -
I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
-- Janel Moloney -
If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.
-- Jen Kirkman -
My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.
-- Jenna Fischer -
There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.
-- Jenny Slate
