Top 133 Television Show Quotes

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

Well, there’s two things that happen when people experience something, whether it’s a song, a television show, a film, a book or any piece of art. It connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I’d probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

There’s so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing – like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with ‘Luke Cage’ is that I don’t view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every ‘Mindfreak’ you see, I can do live.

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children’s television show called ‘M.I. High,’ which I ended up doing for two years.

I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

You see the standard hunting show; it’s an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it’s just a guy sitting in a tree, waiting on an animal. I don’t think it does it justice, and I don’t think it captures the enjoyment and the splendor of the incredible outdoors and the feeling of being out there.

I am lucky to be part of a ‘Kyunki.’ Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television show.

Having watched television, I would kind of play the role or picture myself on a television show or something like that. That’s maybe always been true of a certain type of kid, even before television maybe, but I think it’s been amplified to an insane level.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

I’ve had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it’s such a different thing to do a television show, and I’m very lucky to be able to do them both.

I was proud of ‘House, MD,’ and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for a television show. I loved Hugh Laurie and was proud to be by his side that long and to be trusted by him.

The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You’re stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it’s just trying to peel away and see what’s underneath them. That to me is really fun.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.

If I can go through what I’ve been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that’s reality.

I didn’t have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter’s fame.

When I was nine, I found a copy of ‘Doctor Who: the Making of a Television Series’ in the school library. It had a picture of Peter Davison on the front, and it was a formative book for me. It explained all the different departments like the script, cameras, and sets and explained how a television show is put together.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.

The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

Whether it’s a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

You’ve not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months – it’s crazy. They’re so slow, it’s like vacation to me.

If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.

Every television show is hard to do, but when you’re in genre and you’re recreating worlds and mythologies, they’re particularly hard.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I try to get away. It’s very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I’ve had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

It’s not that I don’t like TV. It’s alien to me. I haven’t watched a television show in decades.

Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is ‘The Simpsons’.

Any actor will tell you there’s more of a schedule to doing a television show. That’s why you’ll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they’ll tell you, it’s because of the schedule.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie… that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I had worked in TV prior to working on ‘Game of Thrones’ – ‘Game of Thrones’ is far more cinematic than any other television show that I had done before, and so I feel that the worlds of TV and film are most definitely merging as one.

That’s the great thing about a series: you’re driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it’s gonna be a television show. I mean that’s what’s great about the job.

My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called ‘Love Soup.’ It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role – I think officially my role was ‘teenage boy’ – it was one episode.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show… maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called ‘Jack & Bobby.’

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space – that sort of thing.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

I think no one would dispute that ‘Chopped’ is a highly athletic television show.

I started making movies in 1977, and I didn’t even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the ‘Guiding Light,’ I was like, ‘I’m done with television!’

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There’s a family dynamic in making a television show that you don’t get on a movie, where you’re a hired gun for a few months.

‘The Young and the Restless’ is my favorite television show.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show ‘Nanny 911’ occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

I’d say without a doubt I’ve had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day – I haven’t topped that yet.

When a television show like ‘Scandal’ becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it’s showing is that people want to see diversity.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.