Quotes of: American-television Keyword

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Jason Aldean

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

J. J. Abrams

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

John Gallagher, Jr.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

Jason Mraz

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Matt Groening

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

M. Ward

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Nadine Labaki

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

Peter Tork

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Rob Lowe

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Simon Baker

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

Seth Meyers

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Fichtner

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.

Xi Jinping

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

Sophie Turner

[watching George H.W. Bush debating Michael Dukakis on TV] Edward Darko: Tell him, George!

Donnie Darko

Bela Lugosi: [watching Vampira on TV] I think she's a honey. Look at those jugs.

Ed Wood

Voice on Glen's television set: It is now twelve, midnight and this is station KRGR, leaving the air.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Christof: I'm determined that television's first on-air conception still take place.

The Truman Show

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

Paloma Faith

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Steven Spielberg

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

Tom Hooper