Quotes About Television

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.

The nicest thing people can say about us, is, 'I turn the telly on for half an hour and go off with me mates, having a laugh.'

Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.

There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

I get marriage proposals, maybe one a week. Women do flirt, yes. They just want someone from the telly. They come and talk to you, and I guess baking is more attractive, and so they feel they have something in common with me. But I'm just a man from Liverpool. I enjoy what I do, and if that gets people baking, then even better.

I don't think I'd want to be a comedian today if I saw it on the telly. I wouldn't think it was a thing for weirdoes and drop-outs; I'd think it was a thing for squares who wanted to be famous.

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.

People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.

You're a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That's all that matters on telly.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

I don't want people turning on the telly and going, 'Dear God, not him again.'