Quotes About Television

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.

I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.

If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.'

I was on 'The Shield,' which I was a fan of.

I always wanted to become an actor but I wanted to act in films. But when I saw there are really good opportunities on television, I shifted focus to television.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'

If I'm going to be on national T.V. without my shirt on, I've got to look good.

I don't want to take my shirt off on TV.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

'24' is such a unique show. I've done a lot of television, but the real-time aspect - where we're shooting over 10 months and actually only doing one day - it's just crazy.

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.