Quotes About Television

I'm coming back to Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. And I feel pampered, protected with them.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

I am proud of the Fox News Channel.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

I think I've proven that I'm more than just a TV singer. I was always more than that, even before I went on TV.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

And for those like Norma and Macky, born and raised in the forties and fifties, it was such a drastic change from that era when everyone felt safe, and your only knowledge of the Middle East was a picture on a Christmas card of a bright star shining down on a peaceful manger, not the place full of hate and rage they saw daily on the television and read about in the newspapers.

Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host of -- HBO's hit show Real Time, I find Maher to be one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life in general out there. It doesn't mean I always agree with him. I always find him funny, though.

Triple Crown winner. This," Riley said, pulling a legal-looking brown envelope out of a kitchen desk drawer, "will explain it all. First, we're going to watch the race." Cole Tanner smacked both his hands, palms down on the kitchen table. "We're teetering on the edge of a black hole where we could all literally lose our shirts, and you want to watch a horse race on television. I-don't-think-so." "You always were a goddamn hothead, Cole.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

I still get fan mail for Columbo.

'NewsRadio' was fantastic.

HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.