Quotes About Television

When I was 8 years old, I watched 'Saturday Night Live,' and I always wanted to be on there and be an entertainer.

I really like Savannah Guthrie. I think that she is a very likable person.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

'Scandal' is certainly different from anything else I've been involved with as an actor.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all.

The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.

A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.

I love Sci-Fi. It's pretty much all I watch.

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.'

You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

This is what kids want to see. You see these Playstations, they scoring 50 and 60 with one player, that's what they want to see on TV and I don't go with that.

I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

I hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'

I see a lot of people who just want to get on the TV screens, no matter if there is talent or not.

I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!'

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.