Quotes About Television

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

I have always had a good rapport with Kapil Sharma.

Finding yourself on a show that's appreciated by its intended audience is a very rare and lucky thing, so when you win the lottery like that, you don't want to rush its conclusion; you want to keep it going as long as you can.

Growing up, a black face on TV was really rare.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.