Quotes About Television

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

I always saw myself doing comedy, so when I got the job on 'All My Children' it was not my thing - I had to slowly get into it.

Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.

I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn't have much connection with the outside world and couldn't see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that's when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.

I typically, with my work, like to approach it in a bigger way. That's sort of how I am. And I remember when I was getting into television, the handcuff that gets put on you right away, especially when you're a theater kid, is, 'Be smaller, be smaller, be smaller.'

When I first got pregnant, my husband and I were huge consumers of premium cable television, and we were watching all of these shows, and it would either be the B-storyline of a show like 'Homeland,' where she's a working mother, or you have even smaller C-storylines on a show like 'Mad Men.'

I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands. If I did go back to television, I'd do a comedy, a half hour. Or I'd go back on an hour long if it was ensemble, if I had a smaller role, if I could work less days.