Quotes About Television

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back ' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.

We can't distinguish between male and female blue tits by sight: blue tits can because the male possesses an ultraviolet crest. Such a bird would find our three-coloured televisions incomprehensibly drab.)

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

If the style of my programmes was to be inspired by anyone else, I thought it had to be, of course, the great Michael Palin.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.