Quotes About Television

The frustrating thing about 'Friday Night Lights' is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

More people saw me in one episode of 'Cheers' than would ever see me in a play.

More people come up to me and talk to me about 'Gilmore Girls' than anything else I've done, including 'Guardians.'

I am the clotheshorse out on the course and the better I play the more people watch me out on the course and the more the clothes get exposure in front of the TV cameras.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

More than anything, I just want people to, like, let themselves be taken on the ride that 'Euphoria' will be over eight episodes and just, like, let it, like, hit them.

People know my characters like Alice Morgan in 'Luther' or Alison Bailey from 'The Affair.' For me, that's a compliment, a kind of joy.

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

My favorite writer on 'The X-Files' is this guy Darin Morgan. He wrote my favorite episode and the top five favorite episodes that everyone loves.

The gang on 'GMB' is what really makes it. I love Ben Shephard, Richard Arnold, Susanna Reid and even Piers Morgan.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.

All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'

You have the most amazing Irish actors. Cillian on 'Peaky Blinders.' And the most amazing actress.

'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I am glad that I made my television debut with 'Perfect Pati,' a show that portrays a mother and her role as a mother-in-law in such a strong positive light.

I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

I used to watch some of the other motorcycle shows on television 10 or 15 years ago because I was a gearhead and I'd be depressed at the end because I can't afford a $200,000 motorcycle.

they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)

It is estimated that nearly half a billion people tune in for China Central Television's seven p.m. news hour. The fact that all local stations in China are ordered by government mandate to carry the program likely has much to do with this high number, but frequent announcements that the president would be making an important national address this evening ensured even higher ratings than normal.