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Every television show you go on is a choice. -- Joan Rivers
I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.' -- Logan Lerman
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! -- Dirk Benedict
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
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille. -- Desi Arnaz
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. -- Andrew Shue
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show. -- Norman Lear
My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing. -- Lennie James
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. -- Jim Henson
I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality. -- Master P
The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day. -- Laurie Holden
They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less. -- Kiana Tom
I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children. -- Dolly Parton
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. -- Steven Spielberg
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent. -- Amanda Donohoe
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. -- Stana Katic
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show. -- Jill Scott
Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals. -- Criss Angel
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!' -- Diablo Cody
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech. -- Marilyn Manson
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. -- Alton Brown
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure. -- Richard Phillips
I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology. -- Norm MacDonald
In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any differently. The other actors and I go in and rehearse scenes together, and then we go in the next day and perform. -- Nolan North
I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing. -- David Henry Hwang
Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. -- Jeph Loeb
I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980 -- Julian Bond
I can say that. I have a television show. -- Daniel Tosh
'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show. -- Jesse Ventura
Year Two is a critical year for any television show. -- Josh Schwartz
I have never been in a violent movie or television show. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows! -- Matt Nix
I would love to do a television show in New York City. -- Ellen Barkin
The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks. -- Stephen King
Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show] -- Yogi Berra
CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television. -- Mike Rogers
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. -- Harry Dean Stanton
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. -- Victoria Abril
Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. -- Charles Barkley
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. -- China Chow
Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it. -- Ludacris
I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes. -- Ryan Seacrest
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. -- Bruce Forsyth
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies. -- M.J. Rose
The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar. -- Bill Cosby
I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever. -- Blake Anderson
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. -- Steve Buscemi
The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever. -- Bob Newhart
You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show. -- Zach Galligan
When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar. -- Wendy Raquel Robinson
'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever. -- Blake Anderson
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling. -- Justin Kirk
I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now. -- Angie Stone
I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television. -- Anna Kendrick
Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.' -- David Letterman
Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show. -- Mark Goddard
It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show. -- Aaron Tveit
At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work. -- Hiro Murai
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour? -- Christopher Titus
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It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. -- Dennis Prager
Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show. -- Jenna Fischer
Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too. -- George W. Bush
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it. -- Tony Hale
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe. -- Parvesh Cheena
I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show. -- Eoin Colfer
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show. -- Jose Andres Puerta
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. -- Eli Roth
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. -- Jim Bakker
Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had. -- Don Cornelius
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco. -- Gary Cole
I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television. -- Stevie Wonder
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business. -- Ricky Jay
I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'. -- David Nevins
Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life. -- David Boreanaz
I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show. -- Greg Behrendt
If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work. -- Anupam Kher
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes. -- Robert Rodriguez
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that. -- Roseanne Barr
I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum. -- Shannyn Sossamon
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. -- David Chase
I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it. -- John Tesh
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show. -- Debra Messing
I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show. -- Shawn Ryan
I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'. -- Dave Barry
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? -- Jennifer Garner
During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. -- Volker Bertelmann
I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla. -- Cristin Milioti
To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing. -- Danielle Panabaker
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. -- Harold MacMillan
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me. -- Eva Longoria
I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense. -- Jon Hurwitz
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem. -- Kiefer Sutherland
Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time. -- Desi Arnaz
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. -- David Halberstam
Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight. -- Van Jones
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television. -- Jamie Farr
I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left. -- Bobby Brown
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. -- Keanu Reeves
You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either. -- Martti Ahtisaari
Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me. -- Lara Spencer
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. -- Steven Bochco
I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air. -- Bradley Fuller
I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else. -- Donald Trump
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame. -- Molly Ringwald
I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously. -- Robert Knepper
I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show. -- Sid Bernstein
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. -- David Gerrold
What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show. -- Mike White
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television. -- Chi McBride
Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'" -- Lara Spencer
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television -- Chi McBride
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show. -- Casey Kasem
I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows. -- Trishelle Cannatella

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