Top 100 Quotes About Tvs
#1. What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.
Jillian Medoff
#2. Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#3. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Amanda Bynes
#4. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.
Aeriel Miranda
#5. With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.
Juliette Lewis
#6. I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.
Esperanza Spalding
#7. I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
Noel Clarke
#8. I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
Amy Heckerling
#9. In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.
Mary Harron
#10. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.
Jon Turteltaub
#11. You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
Bill Gates
#12. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
Kieran Bew
#13. Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.
George Meyer
#14. I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
Dan Harmon
#15. TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.
Felicia Day
#16. The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
Marshall McLuhan
#17. When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.
Maggie Q
#18. The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga
#19. It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.
Aeriel Miranda
#20. You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
Raymond Chandler
#21. On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
Red Barber
#22. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
Andy Samberg
#23. A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.
David Simon
#24. There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.
Kieran Bew
#25. I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.
Craig Ferguson
#26. The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
Sam Ewing
#27. I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they were wetting their pants about only fifteen minutes earlier.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
Bailey Chase
#29. TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.
Bill Skarsgard
#30. I am a Beyonce fan. I'm gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I'll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can't talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.
Wendy Williams
#31. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
Randy Alcorn
#32. People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
Adrian Pasdar
#33. TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
Jennifer Stone
#34. I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.
Marilyn Manson
#35. Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
Carter Jenkins
#36. If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv.
Sergio Ramos
#37. Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.
Robert Draper
#38. You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
Robert Breault
#39. When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.
Judy Greer
#40. Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.
Tom Shales
#41. I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
Magic Johnson
#43. I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#44. The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.
John Fugelsang
#45. TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
Kitty Carlisle
#46. If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.
Beth Mowins
#47. You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.
Bruno Heller
#48. Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.
Shel Israel
#50. Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today
Lloyd Braun
#51. Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos.
Marshall Thornton
#52. TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
Bennett Cerf
#53. A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
Chris Oyakhilome
#54. 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
#55. I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
Amanda Bynes
#56. The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
Marshall McLuhan
#57. There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
Pauline Kael
#58. I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.
Yasmin Paige
#59. My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.
Nick Kroll
#60. TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
Jonathan Nolan
#61. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
H.W. Charles
#62. I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.
Victoria Pratt
#63. Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.
Groucho Marx
#64. Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
Julia Stiles
#65. I'm always wearing a Nebraska hat. Most of the time I'm wearing something that's got a Husker something on it. I make sure I have it on TV but I have it regularly.
Larry The Cable Guy
#67. Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show
Greg Graffin
#68. People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.
Jewel
#69. My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
Shia Labeouf
#70. The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
Reed Hastings
#71. Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'
Richard Sherman
#72. I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#73. We'll bring out the Elvis TV trays.
Tracy Byrd
#74. God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.
Kendrick Lamar
#75. If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
Charles Barkley
#76. 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
#77. People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
David Bowie
#78. If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it.
Seth Rogen
#79. There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.
Mike Vallely
#80. It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.
Patrick Rothfuss
#81. It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.
Gena Rowlands
#82. They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.
Gene Roddenberry
#83. Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.
Arthur Kroker
#84. 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
#85. TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.
Gabriel Iglesias
#86. Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
#87. Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!
DJ QBert
#88. Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.
Andy Kindler
#89. I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
Norm MacDonald
#90. Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts ... Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.
Bill Hicks
#91. One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."
Zak Penn
#93. The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?
Randall Wright
#94. The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.
Shook
#96. TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
Cheyenne Kimball
#97. Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?
Eric Fellner
#98. Spiffy is a free-loading deadbeat kitty who sits around on my couch, watches TV all day, and eats all the Triscuits.
Jade Puget
#99. "It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
Lech Walesa
#100. These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
Dustin Diamond
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