Top 70 ABC Quotes

I work for ABC television; I have my own syndicated TV series. I’ve been on the cover of ‘Time Magazine’ and on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ five times.

ABC has a general policy that you can’t show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don’t remember what I was like before I learned my ABC’s, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

Every generation has a right to hear the Gospel, the ABC’s of the Gospel – the Gospel of salvation.

It’s really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as – well, we’ve been put in a box, about who we should be like.

Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk-radio show at KABC for six years. In other words, I’m fortunate enough to have been around, and Fox News is the best place I’ve ever worked.

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.

I love what I am doing on ‘SportsNation’ and to now have the opportunity to do even more on ‘Winners Bracket’ as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I’m reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it’s stuff I’m just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I’m just curious.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

I recognized… very, very early on that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News were dependent on The Associated Press and Reuters. So my daily intake of information is from watching the newswires.

Working on the ABC movie ‘Don’t Look Back: The Story of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige,” which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I’d played baseball in high school.

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.

My very first school was a primary school in Surrey. I remember being taught to read by the traditional ABC, instead of look-say – that is, whole words at a time – which was fashionable when my children were at school.

Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.

ABC Family is where the good stuff is at. I’m so excited to be a part of this network because they’ve really done a great job introducing shows that are heartfelt, exciting, and everything you’d want.

I just don’t see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

We are extremely proud of our ‘ABC funny’ brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.

ABC’s intelligently hilarious sitcom ‘Modern Family’ depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they’re not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

I’ve been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, ‘Baby Daddy.’

I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called ‘Bunheads’ on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I’m a dancer in a real life.

I was a news anchor in Macon for a year and a half, and a news reporter for exactly one year in Spartanburg before they hired me at the ABC affiliate WSD in Atlanta.

Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.

I think it’s well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes – I’m a huge ‘Scandal’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ fan.

I was sure ‘Summer Heights High’ would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

ABC would love to do groundbreaking shows and there are moments for that, but they’re also trying to entertain millions and millions of people and paid advertisers and keep my family happy.

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News’ ratings go up is because people who don’t normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don’t watch network news or fight over the people who do?

I play the role of Andrew Campbell on ABC Family’s ‘Pretty Little Liars’.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.

We are committed to getting our content to our audience in as many ways as possible. We are very excited about our partnerships.. and we relaunched our ABC app, which is going to be a great place and opportunity for our audience to find our shows in addition to throwback content and new ABC digital originals.

Tim Allen is a valuable part of the Disney ABC family and has been for a very, very long time.

If one were to go back to the ’50s, the most popular TV genre on the air in the United States were Westerns. You could go turn on ABC or CBS on any night and you’d almost have three full hours of everything from ‘Bonanza’ to ‘Rawhide’ to ‘Wanted Dead or Alive.’

‘m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor ‘This Week’ and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Of our seven children, five are at ABC Supply. The three older daughters went to college. The boys went into construction, and I wasn’t disappointed they didn’t go to college.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC – those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling – not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things – then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.

God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I’m a huge fan of ‘Scandal,’ I still love ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and ‘Resurrection’ looks amazing.

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

I didn’t even think demographics until I got to ABC. They were the first to go for 18-to-49. But, at CBS, it was just, ‘Let’s get ’em in the tent.’

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids ‘duck and cover’ long before they learn their ABC’s or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.

The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn’t exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it’s that kind of a success story.

One musical that deeply influenced me – and continues to do so – is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Cinderella,’ starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince’s mom.

ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there’s a new kind of family, so I think they’re really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they’re bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic.

I did an ABC Family movie called ‘Cyberbully’ a couple years ago, and it was unlike any movie I’d ever done before. I remember just reading the script and thinking, ‘OK, she cries in every scene.’

ABC wouldn’t be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

Professional highlight of 2011 was definitely getting the job at ABC.

There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. ‘Tonight’ is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like ‘Nightline’ on ABC is a big mistake.

I like to do an occasional guest spot, but it seems that everybody wants me to go the host route. ABC, NBC, CBS and most of the independents have talked to me about it – Carson himself once asked me if I was interested and added he wouldn’t be there forever. But I wouldn’t do it for all the money in the world.