Quotes About Television

I'm a television presenter, television is my first love.

As a TV presenter I've found it's important to always have great looking feet.

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little. So what was there left for me to do? Television presenter. That was it.

I'm so excited to be the presenter of the first-ever Glow Up Ireland.'

The television presenting I have done has been quite sporadic, and it's normally only lasted a few weeks or months, so it would be really fun to get a gig that was a bit longer.

Just watching this woman owning the TV, there is no doubt that the reason I wanted to get into TV presenting is down to Cilla.

I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing 'Have I Got News For You', I carried on that persona.

With TV presenting, I speak a lot anyway!

TV presenting is not so easy.

When you are in a long-running series you don't look outside it because you don't really need to do much else. When you don't have that you are much more open to offers, like presenting Hell's Kitchen or making a motoring show in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup.

I think the thing that really started setting my career on the course that it's on is when I did '1000 Cats' on 'Funny or Die Presents' on HBO. That's what I feel like kind of got me a little bit more into the system.

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.

Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire, the early states. It costs some money to make the ad, but the greatest cost is in actually placing the ad on TV.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

The first time I met Jon Stewart was at the press conference that Comedy Central held to announce Jon would be the new host of 'The Daily Show,' which back then was not called 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.'

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it's very cool.

Being on 'Idol' was an amazing experience. We had a lot of pressure to do each show, but they really helped shape me as an artist and get to where I am. It was pretty awesome.

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.