Quotes of: Cable-tv Keyword

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

To attract a lover, you need to craft the perfect Craigslist ad. Here’s mine: Free TV with purchase of potato chips and couch.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching TV.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think someone should invent an edible remote control, to go along with TV dinners.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Think a Second Time

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

WWW: Wake

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.

Anthony Bourdain

Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.

Bob Newhart

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

Christopher Meloni

I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.

Felicia Day

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

Lisa Edelstein

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Shelley Winters

TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.

Coin Locker Babies

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

The All-Girl Football Team

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Margaret Cho

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

Mehmet Oz

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.'

Nick Park

I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

Nic Pizzolatto

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

Owen Hart

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

Olivia Munn