Quotes About Television

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

I would love to hang out with Whoopi Goldberg. I was on 'The View' once, and I didn't know how to make an in there, to be like, 'What are you doing later?' But I really love Whoopi Goldberg.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.

There are shows that I would like to be able to watch, but don't really have time to, like 'Hannibal.'

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

We had - there was 'Laverne and Shirley,' but 'Happy Days' started off the evening, and then, you know, we just sort of swam along with them.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

I've always been scared to do a play. I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

The day of the 'Partridge Family' type of show and the 'Brady Bunch' is long gone. The old 'Ozzie and Harriet' days are over.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Harry Enfield and 'Chums' is very family-orientated, but 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme' isn't for mums and dads.

I did a 'Hart of Dixie' episode, and I was so excited for that.

I hadn't gotten a chance to do a lot of comedy, so 'Hart of Dixie' was a great place where I got a chance to do that and play.

I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'