Top 45 Live Television Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Live Television Quotes from famous people such as Melanie Martinez, Louise Fletcher, Skip Bayless, Skai Jackson, Kenan Thompson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The behind-the-scenes kind of process at TV, especially

The behind-the-scenes kind of process at TV, especially live television – that was super scary, but I think it’s made me more comfortable now. If I ever have to go on live TV, I at least remember what it was like when I was 16.
Melanie Martinez
Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
Louise Fletcher
Live television is the hottest medium. My passion for sports debate runs hot enough without a camera transporting it into your living room with 10 times more impact.
Skip Bayless
I feel like when you’re dancing, especially how we’re doing it on live television, you need to give that energy to the camera which is mainly with your face.
Skai Jackson
It’s just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it’s a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it’s just, you know, it’s a kind of a stressful environment.
Kenan Thompson
Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I’ve definitely had my share. I got tongue-twisted on the word ‘prevalent’ once; had a homeless man accost me during a segment; and got my mic snagged off when a congressional staffer barged into my frame.
Kayla Tausche
Live television is just like competing on live TV. You’re never going to be perfect. You just try to prepare the best that you can and execute the best that you can and try to be in the moment.
Shannon Bream
Everything I’ve done I’ve always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it’s been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they’re like, ‘You ready kid? Let’s go.’
Hannah Simone
I have a lot of experience with the lights on bright – a lot of people watching and performing on live television.
Jake Hager
I’m a worrier and a perfectionist, and live television is like the antithesis of that, so it’s been an interesting sort of push-pull of what I forgive myself for and what I don’t.
Malika Andrews
I go to Mexico quite often, and wrestling the Lucha Libre style, the pageantry – those experiences, you truly have to live. Television or social media doesn’t do it justice.
Jeff Jarrett
Only those who’ve presented live television really know how difficult it is to make it look easy.
Noel Edmonds
It’s not saving the world or anything but I still get such a rush from live television.
Zoe Ball
I mean, there’s definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it’s just performing. No matter what, it’s performing.
Kenny Wormald
When I started on ‘Strictly,’ I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.
Darcey Bussell
85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. You’re still going to need live television for certain things – like news, sporting events and emergencies – but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later.
Vint Cerf
It’s really live television, the way God meant it to be.
Bruce Vilanch
You don’t know fear until it’s 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you’re not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
Halsey
If you’re sitting around and doing Chekhov and the cat walks in, you must pay attention to the cat. You cannot continue the dialogue of Chekhov without including the cat. So on live television, we’d automatically go into ad-lib gear.
Walter Matthau
My job is the same if I’m making a new musical or making a play for sixty-five people or doing a live television broadcast. The job is to take care of the actor; the job is to create an environment where they can excel and try to access all their attributes.
Thomas Kail
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring – for better or worse, through sickness and health – than the one I had with my now ex-husband.
Mona Eltahawy
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
Roddy McDowall
I’m energized by this idea that’s live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it’s past you and you’ve missed.
Maria Taylor
Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
Alan Hansen
I think it takes a lot for you to admit you made a mistake and correct it right away, especially on live television.
Pia Wurtzbach
I don’t storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot – on the air, as we say – at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
Arthur Penn
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Taylor Swift
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
Bill Hader
I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.
Lawrence O’Donnell
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Aaron Sorkin
There are no rules in live television.
Harsha Bhogle
My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania in

My job, live television, broadcasting, there’s mania involved in there, too, but it’s the good stuff.
Mauro Ranallo
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that’s where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
Ridley Scott
If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don’t care.
Giuliana Rancic
I was born in 1989. I literally watched ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’ on live television.
JPEGMAFIA
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There’s no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It’s a high-wire act. That excites me.
Francis Ford Coppola
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
Shannon Bream
A lot of what I do on WWE TV is what I was doing on the NXT Live events. That wasn’t really seen by anybody. But now I get to do it on live television.
Elias
Such a huge amount of respect for people who regularly present live television – it’s a skill and it’s not easy.
Spencer Matthews
Putting any show on television is a challenge. I’ve been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on ‘Smallville’ and ‘Lost’ and ‘Heroes.’ I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.
Jeph Loeb
‘Saturday Night Live’ is live television. Nothing can compare to that.
Tracy Morgan
The nerves with WWE performance is more the live television angles because we have time limits and have storylines we want to get through in that time. You’re going to forget a lot about the spots.
Jake Hager
Some players don’t like to speak to the media or prefer to talk on live television so people can hear for themselves what is said, in real time.
Diego Forlan
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
Being a professional wrestler surely prepares you for any acting role in that we have to act on live television, so there’s a lot of pressure put there.
Bill Goldberg