Quotes About Television

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

I love showing people that I wasn't that guy, the guy in 'Will & Grace.'

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!

'Wheeler Dealers' is the grandfather of all the car restoration shows - it's the originator.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

I can't walk through the airport without grandmothers and daughters and little kids saying, 'I watch you on Celebrity Apprentice.' That's a good feeling.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as grateful as we are for the careers we have afterwards, it was - we still miss it.

Television is a very gratifying medium.