Top 101 Television Shows Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Television Shows Quotes from famous people such as Zach McGowan, Michael Lynton, Jimmy Smits, Guy Fieri, Lauren Ashley Carter, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was

‘Cold Case’ was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
Zach McGowan
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
Michael Lynton
I’ve been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
Jimmy Smits
I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.
Guy Fieri
I try to keep myself busy creatively; it’s for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.
Lauren Ashley Carter
I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.
Rakhi Sawant
And I’m auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I’m reading right now for a horror film, and I’m meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
Trishelle Cannatella
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.
Allen Covert
I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.
Ray William Johnson
People don’t really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.
Greg Berlanti
When I can’t sleep, I’ll start thinking about how many shows I’ve done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
Robert Wagner
More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.
Adam Scott
A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, ‘You did this to me!’ but she is still super beautiful. There’s none of the realism that we just went through.
Lennon Parham
Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they’re working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.
Craig Bierko
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don’t want to be here or something like that.
Jason Ritter
Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.
Richard Cohen
I was on ‘The O.C.’ and had a small part, which wasn’t very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we’ll see what happens.
Tate Donovan
You can’t do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you’re always on pins and needles about whether you’ll be picked up, you’ll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.
Jon Cryer
I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.
Roddy Piper
I started judging a few television shows, making appearances at functions or cutting ribbons because it was convenient for me. It also gave me quick and good money. Now, when I look back, I feel those assignments ruined me as an actress.
Mahima Chaudhry
People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession – it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It’s not good for the economy.
Peter Hargreaves
One of the real worries I had before the first season of ‘Treme’ aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce
Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I’ve never seen.
Christopher Guest
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It’s almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it’s just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
Alex Tabarrok
Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They’ve been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.
Robert Wolders
One of my very favorite television shows growing up was ‘The Prisoner.’
Roger Avary
‘Psych’ was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many ’80s icons as we possibly could.
James Roday
I have new music coming out. I’m working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I’m doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.
Doug E. Fresh
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.
Zachary Knighton
When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It’s harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.
Chad Hurley
I’ve been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn’t. And then I’ve thought, ‘This movie’s not going anywhere,’ and it worked. The same thing with television shows.
Dennis Farina
The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have an

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don’t have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.
Justin Simien
I had done about 60 television shows, from ‘Ed Sullivan’ to ‘The Hollywood Palace,’ before I ever went to ‘Johnny Carson.’ At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn’t believe it.
Albert Brooks
One of my very favorite television shows growing up was ‘The Prisoner.’
Roger Avary
I hate performing on live television. It’s so scary, because, if you screw up, you don’t really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on ‘Idol’ really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.
Phillip Phillips
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It’s almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it’s just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
Alex Tabarrok
I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.
James Caan
Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.
Ellen Datlow
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren Ellis
More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.
Adam Scott
I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I’m really interested in, and so I’m pitching a couple television shows.
Trishelle Cannatella
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ I did an episode on, and that’s one of my favorite television shows ever, and there are these shows that I watch so regularly.
Alexandra Daddario
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on ‘Family Circus,’ including ‘David Letterman,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Roseanne,’ and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it’s name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
Bil Keane
‘Cold Case’ was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
Zach McGowan
It’s a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people’s lives and as far as their entertainment lives.
Kim Fields