Quotes About Television

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

Being a reality star is very chaotic: it's a very dramatic job to do. I always 24/7 have to be on and ready for any type of criticism at all times.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.

I'm a big fan of 'The IT Crowd.' That's where I discovered Chris O'Dowd.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.

On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.

Let me be crystal clear: I love doing television.

I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

I loved 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

We're going to continue to go into markets that we've never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we're ahead of the curve on that, too.

The real big learning curve for us was 'SM:TV.'

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.