Quotes About Television

People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They're afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.'

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I was asked before to go out on '8 out of 10 Cats,' and I've been asked to go on 'Question Time,' I said to no to that. I don't see myself coming across well on that sort of thing.

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.

I liked movers and shakers more than celebrities. I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I grew up without a TV.

Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

I don't watch Comedy Central. I don't enjoy it.

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I always thought I would be the person who sat in the chair for 12 hours. Then I realized there are only three people who do that job.

It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.

'The O.C.' was very challenging.

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.

I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.