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Quotes About Television

I kicked my shoes off, shuffled out of the black jeans and carted an armload of food into my bedroom. I switched the television on and crawled into bed with the channel changer. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?
~ Janet Evanovich
You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'm living in a television sitcom, she told herself. I'm being stalked by a guy who worships the God of the Dead and my ex-husband is naked and in my kitchen. I never aspired to being normal, but this is too weird even for me.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
~ Les Brown
'Hum Paanch' never lost its magic unlike some of the current shows, which go off air because they lose fizz. Even after running for almost 10 years, the show went off air only because the makers decided to end it.
~ Ashok Saraf
TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.
~ Margo Martindale
The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.
~ Amy Chozick
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
~ Umberto Eco
I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.
~ Sutton Foster
When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I felt like maybe we wouldn't find a home for it because it's unlike anything else that I've done.
~ Marti Noxon
When I first read 'Lovecraft Country' I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television.
~ Misha Green
Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets.
~ Jesse Armstrong
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
~ Alexander Kluge
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
~ Andy Rooney
I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.
~ Kathryn Newton
Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.
~ Craig Brown
Television has an unparalleled reach.
~ Vikrant Massey
If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
~ Brian L. Roberts
I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
~ James May
I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.
~ Hank Williams Jr.
I came to NBC on 'Friday Night Lights' and they have supported that show and found ways - unprecedented ways - to keep it on the air for a long time. And when I came to them with the idea of doing 'Parenthood,' they not only supported me in doing it but also got behind it in such a way that we were able to put together this incredible cast.
~ Jason Katims
Daily soaps are unpredictable, and one can't predict when the track changes.
~ Amrita Rao
Indian television is unpredictable.
~ Nikita Dutta
I think at one point there were three television channels showing 'Starcraft' tournaments in South Korea. We were so unprepared for its success.
~ Michael Morhaime