Quotes About Television

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.

People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very stupid characters, I think people genuinely thought I was possibly quite dim-witted myself, which is a compliment in some ways, as I must have been doing my job very well.

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'

When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.

I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.

I've always been quite insecure. I had followed Mum and Dad into TV and yet in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't for me.

I was shooting for two Balaji shows, Kayamath' and Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil,' in Mumbai. I was tired working round the clock.

In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the satellite TV. One had to assist a director for years before being able to direct a movie.

When I was doing theatre in Mumbai, actors won't come because they had television. For many years, I did theatre religiously and in Mumbai, I saw people disrespecting it and it hurt me very badly.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'

I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.

It's impossible not to be aware of the Ryan Murphy empire, but he is so kind and funny, and you feel in such safe hands every day.

Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you do have to be resourceful and be able to flex your muscles artistically.