Quotes About Television

I've been invited to do 'Dancing With the Stars' three times, but Lifetime said no.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

You know, I entertain whether I'm on 'Housewives,' or whether I'm on 'Dancing With the Stars,' or whether I'm on 'Young and the Restless.'

Shooting Stars' changed panel shows a bit for ever, I think.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

I've completely changed the way I eat since doing 'Dancing With The Stars.'

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. 'On Dancing With The Stars', I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host 'America's Got Talent', that's really me just talking to regular folks.

'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.