Quotes About Television

I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.

'Stranger Things' is the best TV show ever made, so I love watching that.

My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.

Producer Michael Davies - who did 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' - offered me a TV show, but I turned it down. I wasn't negotiating: It just didn't sound like a good idea. Then he offered me another show, and I said, 'No thanks' again. When I heard about 'Win Ben Stein's Money,' I thought, 'OK, that sounds like a good idea.'

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.