Abby Lee Miller Quotes

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.

I like transformative TV.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

I've seen 'X Factor' but I don't watch it. I don't watch 'Takeaway' either.

I'm a big TV show guy.

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.