Quotes About Television

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

For modeling, you have to be photogenic, but to be a VJ, you actually project your whole personality.

During my school days, I'd tell my friends that one day I would be a television star. But my parents weren't too keen about me venturing into acting. Eventually, they gave in and allowed me to start modelling.

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

We continue to see summer as a great place for unique concepts, innovative business models, and passionate television audiences.

We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.

We talk sometimes about the impact we hope we're having, that little girls - and boys - at home are watching us on TV. We can be role models.

I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.

You know, we never grew up with Asian American role models in the entertainment industry, unfortunately. I'd never seen an Asian face singing on TV.

If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!'... I could do that!

Most modern comedy is crap.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.

I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.

In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold.

I had a show on HGTV with my mom and grandma called 'My Flipping Family.'

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

I love 'Boardwalk Empire,' but there were moments where I thought it didn't have the constant through-line that 'Breaking Bad' did and 'Better Call Saul' does.

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.

From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.

Working with Brock Lesnar is a daily challenge because every Monday night that we're on television, I feel compelled to deliver, at least from my end, the best performance I've ever put on.

It's almost like the Monday Night Wars for me all over again. That's the kind of feeling I get with Reality of Wrestling.

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.