NBC Quotes - page 2

Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I'd like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton. (Conan O'Brien)

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

Ann Curry

I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.

Ashleigh Banfield

I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for 'The Voice,' I thought, 'Why not be the first one to do it?'

Christina Milian

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Carson Daly

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

Davy Jones

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Dick Wolf

I did do an American pilot, but it wasnt shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called The Philanthropist, and it was for NBC.

Dominique McElligott

NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

Dave Foley

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling. (Gabriel Macht)

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

Gillian Jacobs

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, "That can really be fun when it's working." But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing Talk Soup and Later at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

Greg Kinnear

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

Isaiah Mustafa

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Jane Pauley

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

Jeff Zucker

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

Jim Lampley

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

Leonard Maltin

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Lara Spencer

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Gerry Anderson

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun. (Jessica De Gouw)

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

James Burrows

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

Marv Albert

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called Afterthought, and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

Melissa Rosenberg

I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let me watch a half hour of television a day, so I would record Letterman the night before and then watch it when I came home from school. That's what made me want to do a T.V. show.

Trevor Moore

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