Quotes About Television

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they were all making more money than they knew what to do with then and more money than Donald Trump has ever seen in his life.

If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.

We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.

New York is the center of commerce news media, television, advertising dollars.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.

When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult following.

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don't have to be broad anymore - they can be small, weird, and niche.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

I used to watch a lot of Nick at Nite as a kid, and it would play the original 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Carol Burnett Show,' and 'Laugh-In.'

I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.

While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.

People in Nigeria weren't happy that I went to Qatar. They said 'why did you go there of all places?' They missed watching me on television but sometimes you have to think about yourself and your future as well.

'Friday Night Lights' was an incredible show.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.

I haven't had nightmares for some time, but growing up 'Grotbags' certainly haunted my dreams.

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?