Quotes About Television

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

Aaron Spelling kept trying to bring vampires about, and I feel badly that it happened so much later. He was ahead of his time, in that regard.

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.