Quotes About Television

The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House', so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

I get pretty grumpy about TV.

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

It is fun to do the one-off guest stars on stuff.

When I first worked with Mark Harmon I was 15 years old on 'Harts of the West.' He had a pretty heavy guest role as a drunken rodeo clown in our second or third episode.

You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.'

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.