Tv Shows Quotes:

I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

- Adam Pally

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Ipads, Showtime

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

- Adora Svitak

topic: Girl, Self Esteem, Tv Shows, Profit Margin, Magazine Covers

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

- Alan Ball

topic: Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

topic: Oklahoma, Tv Shows, People

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

- Alfonso Cuaron

topic: Tv Shows, Government, Survival, Infomercials

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...There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself.

- Ali Larter

source: "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter". www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.

topic: Men, Opportunity, Tv Shows

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

- Allison Mack

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Consistency

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

- Amaury Nolasco

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hate, Tv Shows, Watches

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

- Amber Benson

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Social

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

- Amy Ryan

source: "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

topic: Tv Shows, Play, Doctors

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

- Amy Smart

source: "Amy Smart Talks About Getting to Play Bad". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 9, 2006.

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Opinion

You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Country, Thinking, Tv Shows

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

- Andy Griffith

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Guitar, Years, Tv Shows

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

- Armond White

source: "Social Network keeps its 100%, Armond White trolls by not trolling" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 29, 2010.

topic: Smart, Tv Shows, Fake, Ruthlessness

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

- Aubrey Plaza

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, People

You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

- Barry Lyga

topic: Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

- Bea Arthur

topic: Tv Shows, Play, Different

Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

- Bear Grylls

topic: Squirrels, Rocks, Tv Shows, Shoelaces

Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.

- Bill Maher

topic: Tv Shows, Two, People

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Idols, Tv Shows, Creating

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

- Bob Iger

topic: Tv Shows, People, Giving

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

- Bob Saget

topic: Dirty, Tv Shows, Nuts

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

- Bobby Darin

topic: Tv Shows, Care, Tvs

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Tv Shows, People, Tvs

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Election

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

- Brian K. Vaughan

topic: Angel, Tv Shows, Tvs

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

- Bruce Nash

topic: Reality, Tv Shows, Different

It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Character, Tv Shows, People

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

- Cam Gigandet

topic: Fall, Sky, Tv Shows

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

- Caroline Corr

source: "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

topic: Tv Shows, Firsts, Tvs, Live Tv

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek

- Casper Van Dien

topic: Stars, Growing Up, Tv Shows, Favorite Tv Shows

People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.

- Cat Deeley

topic: Reality, Thinking, Tv Shows, Reality Tv

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Wonderful, Sookie Stackhouse

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: College, Tv Shows, Tvs

It's been great to come to the U.S. and not have people judge me because of what they saw or heard when I was 16 and on a TV show. They're actually judging me on the fact that I can sing and how my personality is now. Which I think is great.

- Cher Lloyd

source: Source: www.justjared.com

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, People

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

- China Chow

topic: Tv Shows, Watches, Television

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.

- Chris Abani

source: Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

topic: Reading, Writing, Tv Shows, Bodily Functions

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

- Chris Hemsworth

topic: Tv Shows, America, Tvs

Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!

- Cindy Margolis

topic: America, Tv Shows, People

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

- Clay Aiken

topic: Congratulations, Thinking, Tv Shows

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

- Clay Aiken

topic: Tv Shows, Special, Tvs

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

- Colin Quinn

topic: Tv Shows, Stuff, Tvs

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

- Damon Lindelof

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Ideas

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

- Dan Aykroyd

topic: Mean, Black And White, Tv Shows

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

- Dan Gelber

topic: Reality, Florida, Tv Shows, New Normal

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

- Dan Harmon

topic: Tv Shows, Two, Watches

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

- Danai Gurira

topic: Tv Shows, Orange, House, Favorite Tv Shows, Modern Family

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

- Danny Masterson

topic: Summer, Jobs, Tv Shows, Summer Camp

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

- Danny Strong

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Roles

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

- Danny Strong

topic: Reading, Tv Shows, Directors, Casting Directors

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

- Dave Franco

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Zombie, Different, Zombie Movie

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

- David Caruso

source: "AGENT ORANGE: David Caruso on SESSION 9". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 23, 2001.

topic: Tv Shows, People, Guy

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

- David Krumholtz

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, People, Together, Pursuit Of Knowledge

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

- David Schwimmer

topic: Falling In Love, Tv Shows, America

I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

- David Spade

topic: Kids, Tv Shows, Tvs

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

- David Wain

topic: Tv Shows, Mad, Groups

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

- David Walliams

topic: Air, Tv Shows, Risk, Risky Business, Thin Air

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

- Derek Sivers

source: "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

topic: Successful, Years, Tv Shows, Demos, Famous Actor

I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.

- Dhani Jones

topic: Zoos, Tv Shows, Car, Working Things, Good Sense

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

- Dick Wolf

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Watches

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

- Dominic West

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Actors

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

- Donnie Wahlberg

topic: Kids, Successful, Tv Shows

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.

- Dylan Walsh

source: "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

topic: Dad, Tv Shows, Guy, Foreign Service

I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'

- Ed Sheeran

topic: Stars, Tv Shows, Differences

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

- Elisabeth Moss

topic: Girl, Tv Shows, Wings, Girl Interrupted

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

- Elisha

topic: Tv Shows, People, Tvs

We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

- Enrico Colantoni

topic: Tv Shows, People, Police

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

- Eric McCormack

source: "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

topic: Character, Gay, Tv Shows

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

- Gail Porter

topic: Mother, Home, Tv Shows, Proud Of Me

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

- Gillian Jacobs

topic: Tv Shows, Comfort, Degrees

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

- Gina Bellman

topic: Running, Tv Shows, Names

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

- Glen Mazzara

topic: Tv Shows, People, Walking Dead

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

- Grace Helbig

topic: Real, Tv Shows, Taste, Guilty Pleasure, Bravo

Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.

- Greg Evigan

topic: Mother, Dad, Tv Shows, Your Room

When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.

- Greg Gutfeld

topic: Running, Tv Shows, Magazines

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

- Guy Oseary

topic: Book, Tv Shows, Able

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

- Hannibal Buress

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Fun, Writing, Tv Shows

I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

- Henry Rollins

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Hey, Hell Yeah

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Tv Shows, Interesting, Tvs

The noise you hear after people see something you do--whether it's a TV show or a movie--that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

- J. J. Abrams

topic: Keys, Tv Shows, People, Grain Of Salt, Screening

On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.

- J. Michael Straczynski

topic: Tv Shows, Location, Tvs

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

- J.K. Simmons

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Play

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

- Jack Black

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Remember

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

- Jack Dee

topic: Responsibility, Tv Shows, Joy, Sense Of Responsibility, Choppers

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

- Jack McBrayer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Voice, Animated Movies

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

- Jack Osbourne

source: "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

topic: Real, Tv Shows, Mind, Been Real

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

- James Darren

topic: Cutting, Tv Shows, Special, Special Things, Assembly Line

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

- James Gandolfini

source: "True Grit: James Gandolfini". Interview With Dan Fierman, www.gq.com. October 16, 2010.

topic: Fighting, Tv Shows, Laughing

I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

- James Hetfield

source: "The Hot Seat: James Hetfield". Interview with Hank Shteamer, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2012.

topic: Tv Shows, Wife, Feelings

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

- James MacArthur

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

- Jamie Bell

source: "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Tv Shows, America, Space

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

- Jane Badler

topic: Tv Shows, World, Tvs, Diana

I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

- Janel Moloney

topic: Stars, Thinking, Tv Shows, Guest Stars

If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.

- Jen Kirkman

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Way

My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.

- Jenna Fischer

topic: Cat, Tv Shows, Pet, Best Buddies, He Doesn't Care

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

- Jenny Slate

topic: Tv Shows, Important, Different, Comedy Shows

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

- Jerry Orbach

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Worry, Want

We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

- Jessica Simpson

topic: Reality, Tv Shows, Giving

Michael Cole does not deserve to be piled on like many are doing. He deserves respect. Michael is fulfilling a role on a fictional, TV show. He has been 'cast' to play this role as best as he can. For those that have never sat in that particular seat, let me assure you that it isn't easy. Cole's new persona must be working because never before have so many fans, for better or for worse, commented on Cole's work.

- Jim Ross

topic: Tv Shows, Wwe, Play

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

- Joan Cusack

source: "RT Interview: Joan Cusack on War, Inc., the Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

topic: Nice, Tv Shows, Parent

I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.

- Joe Bastianich

topic: Believe, Reality, Tv Shows, Masterchef

The last TV show I binged on was 'Hannibal' because it stars two of my friends, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, who I first met filming 'King Arthur' back in 2003, and I just lapped this show up; loved it.

- Joel Edgerton

topic: Kings, Stars, Tv Shows, King Arthur

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

- Joel Surnow

source: "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Nice, Moving, Tv Shows

I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.

- John Gallagher, Jr.

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

topic: Hbo, Tv Shows, Wire, Favorite Tv Shows

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

- John Hodgman

topic: Jobs, Tv Shows, Tvs, Full Time Jobs

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

- John Landis

topic: Tv Shows, Directors, Actors

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

- Jonathan King

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Guardian

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

topic: Reality, Tv Shows, Names

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

- Jorge Garcia

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Four, Want, Good Story

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

- Josh Charles

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Tvs, Dig Deep

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.

- Josh Gad

topic: Commitment, Tv Shows, Eyebrows

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

- Josh Gad

topic: Israel, Hands, Tv Shows, Lineage, Very Famous

I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

- Josh Hartnett

topic: Tv Shows, Car, Pay, Cheques, Audi

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

- Judd Gregg

topic: Tv Shows, People, Tvs

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

topic: Tv Shows, Schedules, Tvs, Live Tv

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

topic: Dream, Tv Shows, Half

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

- Kara DioGuardi

topic: Tv Shows, People, Goes On

I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

- Keith Barry

topic: Tv Shows, People, Scare, Pushing The Envelope

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.

- Kelly Clarkson

topic: Idols, Tv Shows, Auditions

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

- Kim Cattrall

topic: Europe, Tv Shows, America, Adverts

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

- Kirk Cameron

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Ego, Inflated Ego

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.

- Lara Pulver

source: "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

topic: Tv Shows, Feet, Wife, Good Wife, Six Feet Under

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

- Laura Linney

topic: Cancer, Tv Shows, Tvs

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

- Lauren Graham

topic: Tv Shows, Demand, Tvs

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

- Lauren Graham

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows, Storyline

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

- Lisa Kudrow

source: "There is life after Friends". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

topic: Tv Shows, Marketing, Important

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

- Lisa Loeb

topic: Tv Shows, Names, People

There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.

- Lucas Neff

topic: Tv Shows, Trying, Roles

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

- Luke Pasqualino

source: "Meet the New Hunks of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome". Interview with Jase Peeples, www.advocate.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Tv Shows, People, Watches, Watch Movie

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

- Malin Akerman

topic: School, Tv Shows, Guests, Tv Commercial, Great Money

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Real, Believe, Tv Shows

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

- Marc Cherry

source: "EMMYS: Marc Cherry On 'Desperate Housewives'". Interview with Ray Richmond, deadline.com. June 13, 2012.

topic: Tv Shows, Guy, Lucky, Lucky Guy

There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season - 13 or 26 episodes, whatever it might be - than in the course of one two-hour movie. You can do so many more novelistic kinds of things on a TV show - with time, with gradual development of relationships, and so on - than you could possibly do in a movie. And that is very appealing.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Ideas

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

- Michael Ian Black

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Actors

When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

- Michael McMillian

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

topic: Tv Shows, Issues, Four

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

- Michael Pena

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Advice

What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.

- Mike Mignola

topic: Book, Tv Shows, Looks

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

- Miranda Cosgrove

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Feels

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

- Morgan Saylor

topic: Couple, Thinking, Tv Shows

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

- Natalie Gulbis

topic: Reality, Idols, Tv Shows, American Idol, Newlyweds

I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

- Nathan Fillion

topic: Jobs, Tv Shows, Awkward

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Tv Shows, Play, Broadway

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

- Nicholas Lea

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Care, Matter

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

- Nick Lowe

topic: Tv Shows, Atheism, Unhappy

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

- Nick Stahl

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Play, Unclear

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

- Nina Hagen

topic: Artist, Tv Shows, People, Greenpeace

There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

- Paget Brewster

topic: Tv Shows, People, Want

I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

- Patrick Carney

topic: Writing, Reality, Tv Shows, Kirk

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

- Patrick J. Adams

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Two, People, Big Questions

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

- Paul Daniels

topic: Tv Shows, Television, Tvs, Non Stop

Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

- Pauly Shore

topic: Men, Thinking, Tv Shows, Brainwash

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

- Peter Bart

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Corporations, Irritants, Multinational Corporations

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

- Peter Falk

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Hollywood

It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.

- Peter Funt

topic: Heart, Reality, Tv Shows

When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.

- Philip Glenister

source: "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. Janaury 6, 2012.

topic: Running, Home, Tv Shows, Repetitive

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

- Prince Andrew

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Tvs

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

- Rainn Wilson

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Actors, Baha, Baha I

Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

- Rebecca Hall

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Twins, Twin Peaks

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

- Reed Hastings

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Netflix

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

- Richard Madden

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Games, Google, Storyline

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

- Richard Madden

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Couple, Years, Tv Shows, Derision

I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

- Ricky Jay

topic: Tv Shows, Magic, Age

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Cancer, Tv Shows, Soul

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

- Robert Lopez

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Support

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

- Robert Rodriguez

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, Tvs

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

- Robert Vaughn

topic: College, Tv Shows, Firsts, Medics

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

- Robert Vaughn

topic: Stars, Tv Shows, Guests, Guest Stars

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.

- Robin Leach

source: "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

topic: Years, Tv Shows, Two

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

- Sara Shepard

topic: Liars, Tv Shows, Knowing, Right Answers, Caleb

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.

- Scott Caan

topic: Successful, Tv Shows, Perfect

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

- Scott Wolf

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Movie, Growing Up, Tv Shows, Enamored

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

- Scotty McCreery

topic: Real, Tv Shows, People, Scotty, Real Person

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

- Sean Duffy

topic: Running, Reality, Tv Shows

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.

- Sean William Scott

topic: Jobs, Real, Tv Shows

I acted in millions of TV shows.

- Sebastian Bach

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

I do everything for my fans. I do my clothing line, my fragrance, my TV show, my music everything is based on them

- Selena Gomez

topic: Tv Shows, Lines, Tvs, Clothing Line

My day job is making TV shows.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

topic: Jobs, Tv Shows, Tvs

I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.

- Seth Rogen

topic: Tv Shows, Dvds, Tvs

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

- Seth Rogen

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Great Things

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.

- Shane Carruth

topic: Hard Times, Tv Shows, Philadelphia, Sunny In Philadelphia, Always Sunny

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

- Shane Carruth

source: "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013.

topic: Tv Shows, Bored, Tvs

I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

- Shane Smith

topic: Tv Shows, People, Want, Cool People

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

- Shawn Ryan

topic: Running, Stars, Tv Shows, Guest Stars

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

- Shawn Ryan

topic: Tv Shows, Want, Tvs

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

- Shawn Ryan

source: Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Findings

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

- Shawn Ryan

topic: Humble, Tv Shows, Knowing

Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

- Shelley Duvall

topic: Tv Shows, Feel Good, Feelings

When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.

- Sherri Shepherd

source: "Sherri Shepherd Talks: Marriage Life, Divorce, Parenting & Advice On Catching A Man" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

topic: Husband, Struggle, Tv Shows, Ex Husband

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.

- Simon Baker

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.

- Simon Baker

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tv Shows, Tvs, Connections, Family Connections

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Artist, Tv Shows, Feelings, Good Records

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Song, Tv Shows, Broken, Viral, Understanding Why

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

- Snoop Dogg

topic: Artist, Tv Shows, America, Hottest

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

- Sofia Vergara

topic: Latin, Tv Shows, Perfect, Latin Women, Modern Family

When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.

- Stan Lee

topic: Real, Thinking, Tv Shows

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

- Stephen Collins

topic: Tv Shows, Acting, Tvs

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

- Stephen Lang

topic: Tv Shows, Robins, Rama, Laurel And Hardy, Robin Hood

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

- Steven Moffat

topic: Real, Emotional, Tv Shows

For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.

- Summer Sanders

topic: Dream, School, Tv Shows

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.

- Theo James

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Tv Shows, Curves