Quotes About Television

I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad.

I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position.

I was trying to help Gazprom Media explain why they took over NTV, a television network. If that somehow down the line helped the Kremlin, that wasn't what I was hired for.

I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art.

As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.

A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.

I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.'

As everybody manages to say on TV, 'Yeah, he hits it pretty far for a little guy.' Well thanks.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

We've written for network television, where you have to worry about hitting these ad breaks, you have to worry about 42 minutes and 10 seconds exactly.

Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

If there is hockey or football and cricket on my television, I prefer to watch hockey.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.

I've been trying to talk Frankie into doing 'I'm A Celebrity,' because I want a holiday in Australia again! She should do it.

I grew up on 'Doctor Who,' and they used to do holiday specials every single year, and it just made me so happy that it was just sort of this tradition every year.

If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

I love Keith Lemon. I love Holly Willoughby.

If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television.