Quotes About Television

TV is my sleeping pill.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

It's been two years since I am off television, but I am constantly being offered roles for TV projects. People from the TV industry continue to be kind to me.

People know me as a TV actor but they don't know who the real Abhinav Shukla is.

Broadcasting is a team effort and two, or three, individuals not functioning as a team cannot be as effective as they can if they set aside their own agendas and focus on what they see on their TV monitors and embellish the TV personas of the talents involved. I've been blessed to have had many outstanding partners.

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

Even if I don't have a successful film career, at least I am a popular name on TV. I always see the positive side of things. You do feel negative at times, and even humiliated, but if you keep thinking about that, then your life won't move forward.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

It's fine if you are on TV and people are taking pictures with you but where is the money? That is what parents are concerned about.

Emotionally, I am attached to TV because it has given me my bread and butter.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.

I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

After doing modeling and films, I was always keen on doing TV. It was in my to-do-list. So when 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi' happened, I was more than happy.

You can't really take things people say on TV seriously. A lot of times they do it just for conversation.

I intend to do more directing TV.