Quotes About Television

I modeled a little bit of Quinn on 'UnREAL' after Ari Gold and Anna Wintour combined.

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

I watched some shows like 'The Simple Life' and 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show,' but I hadn't really watched 'The Bachelor' until I was cast on 'UnReal.'

I don't know if I would ever truly want somebody's life in my hands. I think what these people, what doctors and nurses and public service employees do on a day-to-day basis, is unreal, and it takes a special type of person to do that - and I don't think I'm that type of person. I'm happy to play one on TV.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

Mostly we are addicted to television shows for two reasons; whether it's because we get to connect with the story-line as somewhat similar is faced by all of us, or otherwise it gives you something which is totally fictional, unrealistic but catchy.

I cannot stand watching daily soaps that have a lot of rona-dhona and unrealistic drama in them.

Technically, Trump and Putin did appear on the same episode of '60 Minutes.' In two completely unrelated segments, that were shot in different cities, in different countries, on different continents.

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, 'You can only string the fans along so far.'

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

I believe there is lot of untapped potential in the television market. With shows such as 'Bigg Boss' and '24' turning out to big hits on TV, I'm interested to be in it.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.'

You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.