Quotes About Television

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

Coming back into television, I was very, very wary about committing to anything that could potentially take a long time. I don't mind movies, but I was nervous of television.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode.