Quotes About Television

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

There's nothing more riveting than a contractually obligated 'Housewife' sit-down.

Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.

'Mindy' was fun. Other than 'Superstore,' it was the other time I played an elitist, obnoxious idiot.

I'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'

I'm obsessed with everything Ryan Murphy does.

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

At a time when mythologicals were considered obsolete, Devon Ke Dev Mahadev' revived the genre.

We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in 'Coupling,' it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I just think is a genius.

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

I have to admit to the occasional need for 'Come Dine with Me.' I am the most atrocious cook, and that's probably why I find it so entertaining. It looks exotic to me.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

rip the prisons open put the convicts on television

I get upset to see things thrown away and forgotten, I said. They say the Chinese used to believe that things had souls. Before we Turks came here from Central Asia, we spent a huge amount of time with the Chinese; there was something about this on television just the other day, said Aunt Nesibe.

On TV he had seen how the Chinese cooked their rice, and it wasn't with chickpeas and chicken as Rayiha did; they boiled it for a very long time.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

Yes, the bear was smart—for a bear—able to figure out about stone-throwing—he had never seen that behavior on the Discovery Channel.