Quotes About Tv Series

#1. The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

Amelia Warner

#2. I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

R.L. Stine

#3. Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Jim Cummings

#4. There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.

Patrick Wilson

#5. I'd just love to have another TV series. I'll be the assistant D.A. on some crime show.

Julie White

#6. People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

Kathy Bates

#8. At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Clint Eastwood

#9. I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

Al Yankovic

#10. The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Danny Huston

#11. I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

Tom Weston-Jones

#12. TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

Marc Blucas

#13. I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience.

Robert Taylor

#14. I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

Shane Smith

#15. I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

LaToya London

#16. I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

Tom Hooper

#18. I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

Aidan Gillen

#19. I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series.

Megan Lee

#20. A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Darcey Steinke

#21. Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic,

Jerry Seinfeld

#22. Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

Beau Willimon

#23. If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Robert Duvall

#24. When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.

Michel Faber

#25. I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.

Dennis Franz

#26. The difference in working on a TV series and a movie comes down to one thing for me, and that is the travel. With 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' we are in one remote location, but with a movie, you get to travel, explore, and experience different things every day. But I've really enjoyed doing both.

Texas Battle

#27. I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

Stark Sands

#28. There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

Sally Field

#29. I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

Rick Riordan

#30. I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Edward Burns

#31. I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

Lena Headey

#32. I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

Louise Penny

#33. I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Lucille Ball

#34. My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#35. I've kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I've wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there's that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].

Jenna Coleman

#36. I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!

Bipasha Basu

#37. Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

George Takei

#38. You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

Anthony Edwards

#39. When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

Johnny Depp

#40. The 100 tv series " Who we are and who we need to be survive are very different things

Kass Morgan

#41. The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Neil Gaiman

#42. I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

Wentworth Miller

#43. There is no greater joy than putting laptop on your belly and binge watching movies/tv series.

Crestless Wave

#44. I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

M. Ward

#45. Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Mitchell Zuckoff

#46. That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.

Caroline Dhavernas

#47. When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

Eartha Kitt

#48. I never really watched the TV series.

Zoe Saldana

#49. I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

Douglas Wood

#50. I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

Kristen Stewart

#51. If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

Dominic West

#52. You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

Jack Nicholson

#53. Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Zeljko Ivanek

#54. I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

Colin Callender

#55. We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Tahar Rahim

#56. When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called 'Dead Man's Gun' and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.

Reece Thompson

#57. I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

Park Chan-wook

#58. If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

Guy Ritchie

#59. I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

Noah Hathaway

#60. I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

Ronald Reagan

#61. These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Tom Berenger

#62. I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

Robert Englund

#63. I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

John Carpenter

#64. One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Peter Jackson

#65. The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

Jamie Farr

#66. I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'

Tasha Smith

#67. I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

Paul Michael Glaser

#68. The 100 Tv-series" Clarke, who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things

Kass Morgan

#69. I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

Gale Anne Hurd

#70. It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

Laura Bailey

#71. I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

Jodie Sweetin

#72. As the Batman TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction ... lucky for me.

Eartha Kitt

#73. You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

James MacArthur

#74. So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.

Billy Campbell

#75. I've been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.

Megyn Price

#76. One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.

Dylan Walsh

#77. A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

Grant Bowler

#78. Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

Anton Corbijn

#79. Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

Madhur Mittal

#80. I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

Andy Murray

#81. I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

Karl Malden

#82. I've now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven't quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, 'Did I do that right?' 'Could I have done that better?'

Gina Bellman

#83. The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

Deyth Banger

#84. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

Steven Moffat

#85. I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Joshua Roman

#86. I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

Jackie Collins

#87. When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.

Kevin Whately

#88. I'm on a never-ending quest to get back on a TV series, and I want to get on 'The Walking Dead.'

Grizz Chapman

#89. I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Kyle MacLachlan

#90. I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!

Estelle

#91. TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#92. My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

Jim Parsons

#93. About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

Peter Scolari

#94. As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

Vincent Piazza

#95. I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.

Keira Knightley

#96. The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.

Susanna Clarke

#97. Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

Noah Hathaway

#98. You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

Tom Selleck

#99. Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

Maggie Q

#100. In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Carlton Cuse