Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

Caroline Corr

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Bryan Greenberg

I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.

Louis C. K.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

David Wain

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Diablo Cody

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Charlaine Harris

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

Bill Maher

Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.

Bob Iger

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

Bobby Flay

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Brian Henson

And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.

Jamie Hyneman

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

Jamie Bell

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Bea Arthur

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

Anthony Jeselnik

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

Anthony Jeselnik

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

Ann Coulter

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

Bradley Whitford

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

Bobby Darin

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

Colin Quinn

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

Clay Aiken

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

Dan Harmon

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

David Simon

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.