Quotes of: American-television Keyword

The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.

Hugh Laurie

The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.

David Morrissey

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

Natalie Gulbis

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Isaac Mizrahi

The future of American film lies on television.

David Hare

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Jennifer Hudson

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Jason Winston George

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

Rebecca Hall

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Sean Maguire

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

Graham Norton

The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their tele...

Criss Angel

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network...

Jeffrey Klarik

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average Am...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

Dominic Purcell

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Julian Fellowes

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to...

Ron Wyden

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storyt...

Jo Nesbo

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of...

Irwin Winkler

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming o...

J. C. Watts

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

Toni Collette