Quotes About Television

The Swedes got there first - their dramas were always the darkest and most upsetting, and we used to love them when I was growing up in Denmark. Now us Danes have caught up.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.

Though both films and television sell emotions, let's not deny that it's way more challenging for small-screen actors to earn their respect.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

I don't depend on 'The Kapil Sharma' Show for my living.

I think you could turn on any channel and see a sexy guy, depending on your barometer of what sexy is.

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

I go through spurts of watching 'EastEnders,' feeling depressed and vowing never to watch it ever again.

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally.

Saturday Night Takeaway' is the show we always wanted to make. It's a direct descendant of 'Game For A Laugh' and 'Noel's House Party' and 'Russ Abbot's Madhouse,' and they're all shows we grew up on as kids.

Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice.

Everyone deserves to laugh for at least 30 minutes, and 'Ballers' gives you that.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

Despite the fact that I haven't watched a lot of serials, I always wanted to work in them.

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

I've had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you're on TV and you're in someone's home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don't know them back, they don't understand. They've become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

Doing studio shows... you don't get the details of the league.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.