Quotes About Television

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

I'm shy. I'm not outgoing. I'm a homebody. I am on TV, but you know, it's interesting. How much do I talk on TV?

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.

Earlier, the notion was such that TV actors are overexposed and that they can't do films, but now it's not like that.

I expect filmmakers to look at talent and realize that the medium should open up more for TV actors too.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take the expression of a song much farther, that's great. And it's one of the only outlets there is for artistic filmmaking. But it's a double-edged sword. At it's worst, MTV is just a lot of TV commercials for songs.

TV news is not very instructive.

TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

I do strive to be the Andy Kaufman of TV news.

Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn't give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news.

I was in sixth grade. I loved TV news. I acknowledge that I was also in awe of Barbara Walters interviewing Patrick Swayze and dancing with him.

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.