Tvs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.
-- Paula Cole -
I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
-- Paula Jones -
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
-- Pauline Kael -
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
-- Pauline Kael -
I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
-- Pete Cashmore -
I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.
-- Pete Waterman -
You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
-- Peter Berg -
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
-- Peter Falk -
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
-- Peter Jackson -
Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
-- Peter Tork -
I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
-- Peter Weller -
We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.
-- Phil Taylor -
I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.
-- Phillip Lim -
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
-- Prince Andrew -
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
-- Priyanka Chopra -
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-- Rachael Ray -
I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
-- Rachel Bilson -
Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.
-- Rachel Stevens -
The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?
-- Randall Wright -
How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
-- Randy Alcorn -
I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'
-- Rashida Jones -
People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.
-- Ray Romano -
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
-- Raymond Arroyo -
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
-- Raymond Chandler -
Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
-- Rebecca Hall -
I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
-- Rebecca Loos -
I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.
-- Rebecca Romijn -
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
-- Ree Drummond -
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
-- Reed Hastings -
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
-- Reed Hastings -
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
-- Reed Hundt -
Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.
-- Retief Goosen -
People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
-- Ric Ocasek -
I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.
-- Richard Briers -
I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.
-- Richard Roeper -
Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'
-- Richard Sherman -
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
-- Rick Baker -
The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
-- Rick Reilly -
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.
-- Ricky Gervais -
Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.
-- Ricky Gervais -
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.
-- Rob Zombie -
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
-- Robert Breault -
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
-- Robert D. Putnam -
Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.
-- Robert Draper -
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
-- Robert Rodriguez -
I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
-- Robert Webb -
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.
-- Roberto Fontanarrosa -
I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.
-- Robi Ludwig -
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
-- Rocco DiSpirito -
There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.
-- Ryan Seacrest -
A persons portrayal on TV isnt always how someone is.
-- Sabrina -
I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
-- Salar Kamangar -
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
-- Sally Field -
The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.
-- Sam Levenson -
I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
-- Sam Waterston -
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
-- Sara Blakely -
I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.
-- Sara Gilbert -
Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
-- Sara Paxton -
It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar -
I love doing TV as much as I love doing movies.
-- Sarah Wright -
I watch a lot of TV, and I'd like to think what I watch is good TV.
-- Scott Porter -
I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
-- Sebastian Bach -
I do everything for my fans. I do my clothing line, my fragrance, my TV show, my music everything is based on them
-- Selena Gomez -
If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv.
-- Sergio Ramos -
I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.
-- Seth Rogen -
A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.
-- Seth Rogen -
I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
-- Sevyn Streeter -
Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.
-- Shane Carruth -
Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me
-- Shannon Tweed -
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males,
-- Sharon Gless -
I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.
-- Sharon Horgan -
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
-- Shaun White -
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
-- Shawn Ryan -
To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.
-- Shawn Ryan -
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
-- Shayne Ward -
Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.
-- Shel Israel -
I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.
-- Shelley Long -
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
-- Sherry Stringfield -
I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.
-- Shirley Bassey -
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
-- Shonda Rhimes -
The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.
-- Shook -
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
-- Sia Furler -
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
-- Silvio Scaglia -
In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.
-- Simon Baker -
Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.
-- Simon Baker -
There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.
-- Simon Baker -
I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'
-- Simon Helberg -
There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.
-- Simon Pegg -
I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.
-- Sofia Vergara -
I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.
-- Sofia Vergara