Quotes About Television

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

Before, I was writing a script to make a movie. At a certain point, I became A Writer in Film and Television. So I got TV deals to write stuff, film deals to write stuff. But it's dangerous. I got into the WGA, and I became kind of, you know, a slave! They just pay you to write a script, and it's hard to make the movies.

I grew up loving film and television. Film, in particular. I would never feel as inspired - it's sort of the same for music with me as well, but I never got the same kind of feeling with music as I did with watching film.

I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.

I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

It's one of those things where we generally love filming 'Miz and Mrs.'

Before I got hurt, I was on the road five days a week and then I'd come home for a day and a half. And some of those times, I'd be filming Total Divas, so at some point I was working seven days a week, which I was cool. I loved it.

I was filming 'Father Brown' when my agent told me about the audition. As soon as I heard the words 'Line of Duty,' I was so excited.

You have to spend four hours filming a 30-minute program. That seems mental to me.

With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.