Assorted TV Character Quotes
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"A lion does not ask permission before he eats a zebra."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Various Villains

"And now for something completely different."Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: The Announcer

"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope

"But that's life. One minute you're on top of the world. The next minute, some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman

"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"Everyone keeps saying that. It must be a conspiracy."Source: Jessica Jones | Speaker: Jessica Jones

"Hello. IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"Source: The IT Crowd | Speaker: Roy Trenneman

"Here's Johnny! (Tonight Show)"Source: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Speaker: Ed McMahon

"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman

"I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam Swynford de Beaufort

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson

"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman

"I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things"Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope

"I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice

"I'm an adult, and I'm responsible. Let's go get some candy."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Abbi Jacobson

"I'm Larry, this is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl."Source: Newheart | Speaker: Larry

"I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor

"If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard

"It keeps going and going and going..."Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator

"It's a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Norm Peterson

"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope

"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Live from New York; it's Saturday Night!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Various Saturday Night Live Cast Members

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women

"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford

"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy

"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"There's always hope tomorrow will be taco night."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Nicky Nichols

"Up your nose with a rubber hose!"Source: Welcome Back, Kotter | Speaker: Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino

"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar

"You are from New York; therefore, you are just naturally interesting."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor