Quotes About Television

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?