Top 299 TV Show Quotes

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new.

Right before ‘ANTM,’ I was offered a recurring role for the TV show ‘Switched at Birth.’ I had to pick one because both of the shows were happening at the same time. I couldn’t choose, though, so decided to let my dog Foxy decide. She picked ‘ANTM!’

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I’ll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

When I was making short films for the TV show ‘Naalaya Iyakunar,’ I wasn’t just competing but making films that I could potentially show at international festivals.

You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character – especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it’s something you really enjoy.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily… I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

I’ve done a lot of movies before ‘Entourage,’ and I hope to always have my movie career going. Maybe I could take on another TV show, too.

Yes, Barack Obama could easily be cast as an American president in a movie or TV show.

I was a complete unknown when I did ‘Karate Kid.’ I’d just done a pilot for a TV show called ‘Call to Glory.’ And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would’ve been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I’m proud of everything I achieved with ‘Idol,’ and away from ‘Idol’ also. It’s just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn’t even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

I’ve always thought that ‘Dear White People’ should live on as a TV show, so I’ll leave it at that.

Hopefully I’ve inspired a lot of people who thought they’d never be able to get their own TV show to give it a go.

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids’ TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids’ show, but onstage in a bar, so it’s sort of poking fun at the kids’ show. And I was obsessed with that, and then ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.’

I really like ‘Batman.’ Not the TV show, but the dark ‘Batman.’

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie ‘Fargo,’ when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it’s a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn’t be there. I took that to heart.

The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they’ve attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

It’s a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren’t going right anymore.

I had been on the TV show ‘Eight is Enough’ for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

I work on everything, whether it’s a film or TV show – I wouldn’t even consider ‘American Gods’ a TV show. I don’t even know what it is.

I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.

I didn’t want to commit to a TV show.

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People’s lives and our country’s resources are at stake.

There’s something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, ‘I’m good.’ Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, ‘I could do that.’ And maybe they could do that. But they’re not.

Obviously there’s a lot more to a TV show than just a book… I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they’re worried about upsetting the author.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show ‘Mad Men’ is set. My mom raised the kids and was a scholarship coordinator at a school. More importantly, dad was a writer and my mom an artist.

My dream scenario would be to partner with a huge media conglomerate, an NBC Universal or a Fox, and help give me a platform on television and help get me a TV show.

I always just try to remind myself, like, at the end of the day, no matter how much pressure it is to be a TV show host, you still get to be a TV show host.

When I look at my body, I’m like, ‘I’m a lead of a TV show?’ To have a man in the business say, ‘Come along just as you are,’ is really an incredible thing.

If the characters on ‘The West Wing’ were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn’t find it believable.

I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements… producing… developing a half-hour sitcom… working on a movie… leading acting workshops all over the world… and hosting ‘My Black Is Beautiful,’ an empowerment TV show I’m doing on BET for women.

I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood.

I never thought I would do a TV show, I never thought I could do it, so I was not expecting a really good performance. It was more about building confidence, and good or bad, I was encouraging other people and pushing myself.

I’ve become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I’m pretty successful and proud of it.

I’ve heard about Honey G and there’s always someone like that who gets through. It’s a little bit of politics involved in that with ‘The X Factor’ which I’m not a big fan of but at the end of the day it’s a TV show.

I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don’t be calculated about it and say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna tweet, and I’m gonna podcast, and I’m gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.’ I don’t think that should be the goal.

I don’t want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it’s successful, then everything’s perfect and everybody’s happy.

Comedy people like other comedy people. People hang out and are friends and do shows together, and when you get something going like a TV show or a movie, you want your friends to be in it and make it funnier. That’s just the way it should be.

I don’t want to be one of those rappers who had it, but right now they be on a TV show to keep them going. I would rather be out the scene, getting my money on Bitcoin.

When you’re working on a TV show, your schedule can be very unpredictable, which means it’s harder to book shows.

I mean we take it for granted that a TV show is entertainment, but sometimes it’s responsible for huge shifts in politics, in society. It transcends entertainment, somehow.

I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I’m in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.

If I can do a scene in one shot, it’s in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with ‘Looking,’ what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn’t know, but it’s a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I’m apparently willing to watch the same episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ like, seven times.

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched ‘On the Waterfront’, just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

Music is everything to me. It’s the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be such an injection of tone, and I think tone is everything to a story.

‘Stranger Things’ is the best TV show ever made, so I love watching that.

People ask, like, ‘How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?’ I’m not too worried about that. Whether it’s theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don’t know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I’ve always been able to do that.