Quotes About Television

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

We want eyeballs on the screen.

For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.

'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.

I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.

I'm loving 'X Factor,' I'm having the most fun. I love the idea and I love the celebrities.

The X Factor' is nothing without Louis Walsh.

When you think about the 'X Factor,' you're always going to think about Cheryl because she was a massive part of it. Huge.

I have nothing negative to say about 'X Factor,' it's the best show in the world.

I've seen 'X Factor' but I don't watch it. I don't watch 'Takeaway' either.

I don't watch 'The X Factor,' I don't watch 'The Voice,' so I wouldn't want to do them.

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'