Television Quotes

Besides providing us wholesome entertainment, television also has an innate ability to convince people to purchase certain products and services. For housewives, children and students, television is a savior especially during the time of boredom and holidays! One need not go to a movie theater or shell out big bucks to buy film tickets since as several TV channels broadcast brand new movies. Soap operas and reality shows are also catching up fast on small screen and becoming reputed. Read some of the most popular quotations and sayings on TV to get a better idea.

I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time.
Love Time
David Tennant

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The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.
Fred Rogers

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Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
Chris Elliott

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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
Dick Van Dyke

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Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
Linda Evans

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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Modern
Abbie Hoffman

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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
Charlie Hunnam

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It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
Death
Giancarlo Esposito

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I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.
America Order Crime Unkindness
Osama bin Laden

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I'm very wary of news on television.
News
Val Kilmer

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I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
Anger Attitude Nagativity Reality
Cameron Diaz

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Entertainment People Time
T. S. Eliot

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life Art
Woody Allen

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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Peace
John Lennon

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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley

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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
Time
Xi Jinping

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Television makes you very famous. It's very strange.
Matthew Broderick

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One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.
Questions Country
Bob Ross

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My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Belief Excitement
Steve Irwin

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
Color
William Gibson

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I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
Rick Moranis

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You can't say whatever you want on network television.
Pete Davidson

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I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
Theatre
Kevin Spacey

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Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
Elizabeth Debicki

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After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
Ben Shapiro

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For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.
Comedy
John Krasinski

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Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
Greatness
Matt Bomer

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Pressure Technology
Laurence J. Peter

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I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
Issa Rae

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In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Woody Allen

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I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
America
Groucho Marx

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Television is such an evolving medium.
Chris Pratt

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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
News
Val Kilmer

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I've had to consciously try not to do all television and try to do films.
Elisabeth Moss

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Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.
James Spader

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I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
Michael Fassbender

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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
Dave Barry

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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
Movies
Jennifer Garner

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Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
Louis Theroux

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But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
Comedy Things
Matt LeBlanc

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I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players, two VHS machines and four stereos. I have nineteen remote controls, mostly in one drawer.
Rick Moranis

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Television is a service, but it's also a business.
Business Service
Megyn Kelly

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The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Success
Seth MacFarlane

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I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.
Demi Lovato

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Television and I grew up together.
Togetherness
Roger Ailes

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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
Lawrence Peter Berra

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Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
Football Play
Blake Shelton

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I loved television. 'Starsky and Hutch' was my show. 'SWAT.' Both Aaron Spelling shows. Loved 'em.
Luke Perry

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Television is the medium that's allowing women's stories to flourish.
Women
Elizabeth Debicki

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I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.
James Spader

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Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
Stars Media
Chevy Chase

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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
Government
David Attenborough

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We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.
Sundar Pichai

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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
Pamela Anderson

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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
Anjelica Huston

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Television, particularly as it becomes more and more serialised, comedies no longer have to tie the stories up neatly within 20-plus minutes. 'Arrested Development' had evolving storylines, as did both versions of 'The Office.' We're seeing that more and more. That allows it to be really, whatever the tone, almost literary.
Ron Howard

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I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both.
Luck
James Spader

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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Children
Erma Bombeck

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I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.
Matt Bomer

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It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
Good
Conan O'Brien

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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
People Business
Les Brown

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I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.
Love Time
Emma Watson

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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
People Wisdom
Bob Woodward

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I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.
Amitabh Bachchan

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I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.
Love Football
Novak Djokovic

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Television can be a very fickle place.
Megyn Kelly

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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
Growing Up
Jennifer Garner

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I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that's why I have not been put in a category.
Nora Fatehi

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I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
Good
Jason Bateman

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I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
Dave Chappelle

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Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.
Julia Stiles

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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
Comedy
Chevy Chase

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Rupert Murdoch

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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
Divorce
Val Kilmer

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Television is not a gimmick.
Roger Ailes

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I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.
Girl
Megyn Kelly

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I don't think I'll always be on television.
Tyra Banks

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Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.
Hollywood
Ben Shapiro

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I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television - a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.
Noel Fielding

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News isn't even the truth on television.
News Truth
Val Kilmer

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On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.
Order Acting
Alec Baldwin

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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
Work
Priyanka Chopra

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I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
Success
Roger Ailes

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The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.
Louis Theroux

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All you see on television are debased images.
Prince

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Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
Distance World
Robert Kennedy

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Great writing makes great television.
Greatness Writing
Kevin Bacon

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'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' I did an episode on, and that's one of my favorite television shows ever, and there are these shows that I watch so regularly.
Alexandra Daddario

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These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.
Theatre
Diana Rigg

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I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
Kevin Bacon

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I can't stand to see myself on television.
Bob Dylan

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Getting into television was a total fluke.
Sandra Bullock

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The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
Kevin Spacey

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It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.
World
Diana Rigg

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'Gogglebox' is a show where you watch people watch television.
People
Kevin Bacon

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The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.
Priyanka Chopra

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Television is populated with commitment-phobes.
Rob Lowe

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I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
School Thinking Theatre
Orlando Bloom

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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
Dick Van Dyke

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