Quotes About Television

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

I am 47; I think I must be one of the oldest female newscasters on telly. There's not many of us who still get to work regularly for this long.

When youre on telly, youre defined by what you do on telly.

I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.

Pretty much every comic that you see live is going to be slighter ruder, slightly darker and slightly more scary. But there are restrictions when you're on the telly. I'm not trying to rude it up for live. I just have to restrict myself on the telly.

There's so much to see and do in Austrailia, but a lot of it is outside so I've ben immersing myself in their telly.

I've just realised that I lean towards telly that features people of a similar age to me. That's a bit weird, isn't it? I watch soaps with casts of all ages because there are at least three or four people in my age band. Somehow it's fine if they're a murderer as long as they're not a young one.

I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you know sometimes classical music can get a bit hectic and I just want to turn all the violins right down. That's when I pop the telly on.

It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate of.

The girls at 'Loose Women' are my actual friends. They're not just telly friends.

There is a sense that if you're not on the telly then you might have died. I'm aware that's how people largely judge you.

If people think I am a failure because I am not on telly every day, that is their problem.

The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.

I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.

I think shows like 'Dancing on Ice,' 'X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent' make great telly, but I'd never want to be contestant. I'm far too insecure and competitive. Also, working in theatre, you're being judged all the time - and I'd rather not be told I'm awful in front of millions of people!

Gareth Bale is such a great player. I had watched him before on telly and you could see how special he is.

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.

On telly, if it's not the right kind of show, I revert back to my 'Girlie Show' persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I'm not actually like that, I'm actually quite - not clever, but smart with my words.

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

I have never had a problem with not being able to do anything just because I am on telly every day.

Do you know what, the reason I haven't worked loads and loads is because I got so lucky working on 'Popworld' and T4. They were such unique pieces of telly, so I got really spoiled.

I'd seen Richard Pryor and Joan Rivers, the stuff off the telly. I don't think I'd seen anything live before I did a gig, which is weird.

I've written four jokes ever about cakes. But because they were show jokes, they were on the telly a lot. And everywhere I go people give me cupcakes. I don't eat them, I give them away.

One thing I love and miss when I'm on the road is company when sitting in front of the box. I love watching telly with my fella.