Top 272 Episode Quotes

After the third episode of ‘The Mandalorian,’ I knew I had to make my own Baby Yoda.

It’s funny. I did give birth to an alien on ‘The X-Files.’ And it’s just the teaser, so I’m dead before we even get into the episode.

There’s a beautifully simple sketch in the first episode of ‘Smack the Pony:’ two women approach each other walking their dogs and as they pass the women bark at each other, the dogs remaining perfectly calm. It kills me every time.

I’ve seen ‘True Detective’ end-to-end at least three times; I’ll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I’ll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I’m done with the call.

I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of ‘Murphy’s Law.’ He’s a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

I got pantsed in ‘Bar Wars,’ the number-one rated episode of ‘Cheers’ all time. I’m very proud of that.

From the moment I watched my first episode of ‘Girls,’ I have been a fan of Lena Dunham.

As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of ‘Psych’ allowed us to do homages, the show creator and I both had respective dreams. His was a musical episode, and mine was a ‘Twin Peaks’ episode.

The thing about Netflix is that you get more minutes in your episode because there are no commercial breaks. You have time to let things breathe and be quiet. You get to see an entire scene play out instead of just jumping halfway in.

I was a real avid ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ fan. I think I may know every episode.

The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first ‘I love you’s’ – chronicled in my 2012 memoir ‘Brain on Fire’ – occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.

I’m crazy about ‘Breaking Bad,’ but I wouldn’t know how to write an episode of it.

You just never know what the grand plan is on ‘Dexter,’ so I didn’t know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn’t done the Stand.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it’s a little edgy for Saturday night.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it’s just a ridiculous pace.

The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service’s ‘The Food Chain’ in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes.

When I did my first episode of ‘Xena,’ I told my parents this is the worst acting I’ve ever done.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it’s ‘Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.’ And each time we hear of Pakistan it’s in that context.

I’ve played four roles on ‘Star Trek.’ My favorite episode was ‘The Visitor’ on ‘Deep Space Nine.’

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

When I was a kid in the U.S., ‘Doctor Who’ wasn’t really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Nickelodeon came to us at the end of 2009 with a twelve episode ‘mini-season’ already green-lit for a new series. They let us do pretty much whatever we wanted with it, as long as it was in the ‘Avatar’ universe and featured bending.

The first time Rachie and I will be working together is on an episode of ‘Doctor Who’ specially written for us by Mark Gatiss. How lucky is that?

You can’t TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you’ve just got to watch Don as Barney. That’s why I put Don in several of my movies.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

I was playing the villain ‘Falseface’ on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn’t getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

There are so many factors that go into directing. It’s honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.

So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year – to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out.

I think when you’re 10 years old, it’s too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you’ve invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

I did this one scene in an episode of ‘General Hospital’, and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, ‘Woo! This is easy! This is fun!’ That was a really cool moment for me.

Perhaps there’s a lot of quality television that’s not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.

Having the games on TV, I’ve always believed it’s like watching a soap opera – fans can’t wait for the next episode.

I’ve been lucky enough that in the U.K., I’ve done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great – the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

In ‘Sugar’ I’ll be singing in every episode and I’ll be acting and doing comedy. It’s ideal for me if it works.

I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s ‘Inside No 9.’ The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It’s like saying you’ve represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the ‘Cosbys.’

Something that I learned from ‘Friday Night Lights,’ sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it’s not having less than having 10. It’s what you do with those scenes.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

‘Leave It To Beaver’ is a fairly famous show in America, but I don’t think it travelled. It was one of those typical ’50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

We’ve made it to the 1000th episode of ‘The Chase,’ as the show is so entertaining and informative. I’m so lucky I get to be a part of such a great team and have a laugh at work; I even learn some things, too.

Every episode of ‘True Blood’ is like shooting a low budget feature.

I think ‘Game Of Thrones’ has been genius, and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.

When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Voyager,’ and I hired an acting coach.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

I’d been on ‘SVU’ before and I’d been on ‘Criminal Intent,’ but I wasn’t a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn’t a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there’s ever anything that deals with a character’s personal life, you don’t have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don’t have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.