Quotes About Television

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

Gunsmoke' had been a successful radio show for many years before and I was determined to go with it on TV.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

I love playing Rosie on 'Devious Maids,' and I think that if Rosie would have an NFL team to root for, she would also be a Cleveland Browns fan.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I have died in enough TV and films.

I like the differences between American and British television dramas.

With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

I would be involved in a show that was something like 'Run's House'... that's a different kind of show.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I think it's great to have a lot of shows that are featuring women in different kinds of characters, which wasn't so always.

Television is a different medium and I am happy I could reach out to different kinds of audiences.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.

I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it.