Quotes About Television

The 'NCIS' franchise is beyond successful.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.

You can compare Fred and Barney Rubble with Gleason and Carney.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

For me, to be on television and not be afraid of making a mistake is freeing.

I freelance as a sports broadcaster.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.

It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

'Walking and Talking' is my love letter to books, '70s television, music and friendship.

I'm too frightened to go on 'Celebrity Mastermind.' You really are shown up. Just you and a chair - there's no way out.

With 'Dawson's Creek,' I wasn't a fan of '90210,' and that wasn't particularly my genre of show. 'Fringe,' on the other hand, is right up my alley.

I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.

I'm going to be the next David Frost.

There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

'Flash Forward' was one of the big heartbreaks of my career. It was just this very frustrating experience. If we'd been allowed to tell the story we wanted to tell, I don't know that it would've been more successful or not. There's no way to know.