Quotes About Television

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head.

'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Gilmore Girls' felt very apart from everything else that was happening. I felt very lucky to be able to be on a show dealing with those issues. I was proud.

It is what it is, and it's a crazy job - I literally touch letters and wear pretty clothes, and how do you describe that job? It's weird, but I've been doing it for a long time, and I'll be first to make fun of it - I really will - but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in world.

My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of my idea, so I can say without hesitation that I am living someone else's dream.

Living in Italy meant growing up without MTV.

People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.

The Walking Dead' is my show. I download it from iTunes so that I can watch it the second it comes out. It's a show that I've got really involved in, emotionally.

What was cool about my career, Jack LaLanne gave me my first break on TV. I was his co-host.

My wife kept looking at the Jack Paar show and telling me that's what I should be doing on television. But I kept telling her she was wrong.

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations is slavery, and I'd be there two minutes in crying, they're all slaves! So I don't want to do 'Who Do You Think You Are.' It's in my family.

When Huell Howser died, James Adomian had done Huell Howser for years. As crazy as that impression was, James genuinely loved Huell Howser.

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

I love Japan. I loved going out there and I love the fan base, and I loved everything that I was doing out there, but the opportunity to come home and to be on U.S. television and see my friends and family, the idea was to be able to tour the U.S. and be a part of that.

I was offered a screen test for a business show on Japanese TV. I did it for a laugh, really, and I got the job. It turned out to be a pretty brave yet brilliant decision.

'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the first American drama to do that.