Tvs famous quotes

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Moving #Technology #Tvs

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Reality #Tvs #Internet

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Littles #Today #Tvs

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.
-- Adam Carolla

#Want #Tvs #Middle

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
-- Adam Driver

#Girl #Evil #Tvs

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-- Adam Driver

#Tvs

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
-- Adam Lambert

#Beautiful #Kids #Tvs

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Tvs #These Days

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
-- Aileen Quinn

#Roles #Actresses #Tvs

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
-- Al Hirt

#Tvs #Devastated

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

#Tv Shows #Littles #Tvs

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
-- Alan King

#Firsts #Tvs #Program

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
-- Alan Parker

#Thinking #Feelings #Tvs

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.
-- Alan Sugar

#Thinking #Reality #Tvs

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
-- Alex Winter

#Video #Tvs #Tv Commercial

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
-- Alexander Cockburn

#Radio #Corporations #Tvs

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Careers #Actors #Tvs

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
-- Alexander Ludwig

#Real #Tvs #Human Nature

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
-- Alexandra Roach

#Passion #Tvs #Film

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.
-- Alexandra Roach

#Reality #People #Tvs

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Play #Sick #Tvs

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Actors #Tvs #Generations

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Actresses #Tvs #Film

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
-- Alison Sweeney

#Reality #Cameras #Tvs

I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
-- Amanda Bynes

#Fun #Tvs #Serious

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
-- Amber Benson

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Social

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
-- Amber Heard

#Watches #Tvs #Film

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
-- Amy Heckerling

#Movie Love #Tvs #Youth

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
-- Amy Smart

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Opinion

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#Play #Tvs

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
-- Anderson Cooper

#Tvs #Womb

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Reality #Thinking #Tvs

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.
-- Andrew Clements

#Thinking #Watches #Tvs

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber

#People #May #Tvs

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
-- Andy Borowitz

#Country #Care #Tvs

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
-- Andy Cohen

#Book #Thinking #Tvs

TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.
-- Andy Cohen

#Hobbies #Hot #Tvs

This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.
-- Andy Greenwald

#Finals #Tvs #Wave

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
-- Andy Milonakis

#Night #Watches #Tvs

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
-- Andy Milonakis

#Writing #Pilots #Tvs

Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
-- Angus Young

#Mean #Long #Tvs

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.
-- Ann Dowd

#Tvs #Difficult

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.
-- Anna Benson

#Night #Done #Tvs

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Black And White #Watches #Tvs

When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.
-- AnnaSophia Robb

#Want #Tvs

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
-- Annette Funicello

#Home #Tvs

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
-- Annie Lennox

#Black And White #House #Tvs

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
-- Anson Mount

#Tvs #Cable Tv #Television

On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Thinking #Darkness #Tvs

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
-- Anthony Michael Hall

#Stars #Rap #Tvs

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.
-- Anton du Beke

#Goal #Dancer #Tvs

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.
-- Arthur Darvill

#Actors #Firsts #Tvs

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Reality #Tvs #Reality Tv

I like TV on demand and Cheetos.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Demand #Tvs

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Wake Up #Waking #Tvs

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Tvs #Threat

TV is the place that writers want to be.
-- Ayelet Zurer

#Want #Tvs

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-- Barbara Kruger

#Profound #Tvs #Influence

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
-- Bas Rutten

#Art #Stuff #Tvs

I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.
-- Ben Lee

#Hair #Watches #Tvs

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Done #Littles #Tvs

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Cheerleading #Drama #Tvs

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Reality #Decision #Tvs

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
-- Bette Midler

#Breakup #Tvs #Married

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
-- Bill Bixby

#Honesty #Tvs #Artistic

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
-- Bill Bixby

#Faces #Tvs #World

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
-- Bill McKibben

#Half #Tvs #Easy

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Games #Waiting #Tvs

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
-- Billy Higgins

#Needs #Tvs #Helping

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
-- Billy West

#Watches #Tvs

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
-- Bob Odenkirk

#Crazy #Thinking #Tvs

On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.
-- Bob Uecker

#People #Radio #Tvs

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
-- Bob Woodward

#Hands #Tvs #Politician

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.
-- Bobby Darin

#Tv Shows #Care #Tvs

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

#Tv Shows #People #Tvs

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.
-- Bobby Jindal

#Laughing #Firsts #Tvs

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
-- Bong Joon-ho

#Kids #Tvs #Genre

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
-- Bradley Whitford

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Election

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.
-- Bradley Wiggins

#Nice #House #Tvs

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.
-- Brian Grazer

#Moving #Night #Tvs

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Angel #Tv Shows #Tvs

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
-- Brit Hume

#Tv News #People #Tvs

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Health #Reality #Tvs

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman

#Important #Rooms #Tvs

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
-- Bruno Heller

#Cheer #Hard Times #Tvs

I intend to do more directing TV.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Tvs

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Needs #Bricks #Tvs

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
-- Camryn Manheim

#Fall #Men #Tvs

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
-- Candace Bushnell

#Long #Challenges #Tvs

People only know what they see on TV.
-- Carmelo Anthony

#People #Tvs

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Real #Tvs #Glitz

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
-- Caroline Corr

#Tv Shows #Firsts #Tvs

I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself.
-- Carson Kressley

#Years #Feel Good #Tvs

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.
-- Casey Abrams

#Watching Tv #Tvs #Couches

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
-- Cat Deeley

#Tvs #Kind #Trouble

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

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Wonderful

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
-- Charles Durning

#Years #Play #Tvs

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.
-- Charlie Cox

#Careers #Roots #Tvs

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

#College #Tv Shows #Tvs

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Who I Am #Roles #Tvs