Top 100 Tv Show Quotes
#2. Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
Lee Siegel
#3. It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
Mackenzie Crook
#4. I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."
John Sayles
#5. You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.
Gilbert Gottfried
#6. I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days.
Anushka Sharma
#7. I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.
Lauren Graham
#8. 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
#9. I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
Allison Mack
#10. Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.
Joss Whedon
#11. I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.
Chad Hurley
#12. You know, a TV show is a slow build.
Ray Romano
#13. Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.
James Maslow
#14. Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband's last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state.
Tamara Keith
#15. I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.
Joel Kinnaman
#16. I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
Pat Paulsen
#17. I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
Macaulay Culkin
#18. When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
Taylor Swift
#19. I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn't been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I'm winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Anna Wood
#20. I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
Paul Anka
#21. Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.
Jessie Usher
#22. People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
Kim Kardashian
#23. Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.
Chris Rock
#24. I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.
Whitney Cummings
#25. A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
Jack Falahee
#26. People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
Tara Reid
#27. Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.
Sam Huntington
#28. I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
Margot Robbie
#29. 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
#30. I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements ... producing ... developing a half-hour sitcom ... working on a movie ... leading acting workshops all over the world ... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith
#31. 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
#32. 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 Cuthbert
#33. It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.
Vince Gilligan
#34. The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
Joshua Jackson
#35. 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
#36. It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#37. The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.
Chris Carter
#38. I've never understood why every character being "hot" was necessary for enjoying a TV show.
Tina Fey
#39. I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.
Jim Gaffigan
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
Peter Tork
#43. I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
Shaquille O'Neal
#44. Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.
Ann Coulter
#45. I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.
Aml Ameen
#46. 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.
Ali Larter
#47. I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
Lou Reed
#48. 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
#49. I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering work. I told my director I had to miss rehearsal because I had to work a party. He was like, 'You're on TV. You need to get over that.'
Seth Numrich
#50. The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.
David Selby
#51. I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards.
Scott Aukerman
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!
James Maslow
#55. A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.
Seth Rogen
#56. Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.
Penn Badgley
#57. 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
#58. I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
Gabriel Basso
#59. There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
Shelley Duvall
#60. In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it's a little bit of a witches' brew. I completely think I'm capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.
Sam Simon
#61. TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.
Howard Gordon
#62. I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
Bruce McCulloch
#63. In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.
Garry Marshall
#64. I held up my Gray's Anatomy by way of answering. She huffed. Why don't you just watch the TV show instead of reading that big fat book?
Brenna Aubrey
#65. My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.
Shmuley Boteach
#66. I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
Maurice Sendak
#67. I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!
Megan Amram
#68. I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.
Felicia Day
#69. 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
#70. It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.
Phil Hartman
#71. I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.
Patricia Mauceri
#72. 'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.
Gillian Jacobs
#73. In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone.
Giorgio Moroder
#74. I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.
Tawni O'Dell
#75. I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'
Dax Shepard
#76. 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
#77. My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.
Rebecca Mader
#78. 'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We'd record it on the big VHS tapes, and I'd watch it before school, after school, on the weekend, wear the costume, have all the weapons.
Greg Cipes
#79. I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.
Sean Duffy
#80. The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.
John Thune
#81. Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.
Tom Ellis
#82. With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.
Michael Eklund
#83. 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
#84. When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton
#85. I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
Elliot Cowan
#86. I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
Jennifer Saunders
#87. I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
Caroline Corr
#88. A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
Kristoffer Polaha
#89. No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay
#90. 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
#91. I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.
Ricky Schroder
#92. Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
John Lasseter
#93. 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
#94. My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.
Danny Masterson
#95. I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#96. In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?
Hank Stuever
#97. You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
Amber Benson
#98. Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.
Casey Neistat
#99. 'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.
Alex Graves
#100. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
Ellen DeGeneres
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