Tv Shows Quotes - Page 2

• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, America, Parent

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

  Scotty McCreery

  Real, Hollywood Life, People

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• My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!

  Victoria Justice

  Glee, Tvs, My Favorite

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• Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

  Matt Groening

  Attention, Rewards, Tvs

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  People, Tvs, Senators

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• If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hate, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Baha, Actors

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• This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

  Bradley Whitford

  Tvs, Election, Shows

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• Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Successful, Pie

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• I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

  Kirk Cameron

  Thinking, Ego, Tvs

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• 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

  Jobs, Best Job, Long

  "Cooking up a mystery: an interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.raintaxi.com.

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• There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.

  Joss Whedon

  People, Tvs, Normal

  "Joss Whedon: the film that changed my life". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

  Maurice Sendak

  Fall, Vampire, Tvs

  "Commentary: 'Wild Things' is scary, but so is life". Interview With Ruben Navarrette Jr., edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2009.

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• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Real, Believe, People

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• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  Danica Patrick

  Husband, Yoga, Home

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• There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

  Tyler Perry

  Trying, Fans, Needs

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Pyramids

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

  Al Franken

  Writing, Worry, Firsts

  Senate hearing on COICA, arstechnica.com. February 16, 2011.

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  Nathan Fillion

  Art, Believe, Watches

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

  Snoop Dogg

  Artist, America, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Husband, Struggle, Feet

  "Sherri Shepherd Talks: Marriage Life, Divorce, Parenting & Advice On Catching A Man" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

  Junior Seau

  Sports, Running, Jobs

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• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  Taylor Swift

  Cute, Summer, Thinking

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