Quotes About Television

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

I think it's always difficult to get a show on telly, whether you're George Clooney or just starting out. But there's room. If you're into it, chase it. You'll get it.

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.

I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.

I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.

When I'm on tour I just ring up the theatres, book it and go on. You can pretty much go on tour when you want but you can't just make a telly show when you want.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

I don't think I'm any different on 'Celebrity Juice' or daytime telly. It's what's going on around me that's different. I don't suddenly become all outrageous and rude on 'Celebrity Juice.'

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.

Saturday mornings, you've got three hours of live telly and it's really forgiving.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

The swimmers ask me all the time 'is it going to be on telly more?' They want their families to watch them. Not every family can afford to go to Rio or Budapest. And it is nice for the clubs and coaches as well to see the people they have brought up.

I am the kind to sit in front of the telly for hours. In fact, my parents and I are addicted to food shows. We can watch them endlessly. People who have seen us like, this call us a crazy family.

At the time I left film school there wasn't a lot of hope for young film-makers. It was a calling card of film school to be quite slick and commercial, which might lead to getting some stuff on telly.