Quotes About Television

When you have the top show your scripts have to be more than competitive. They should be the best.

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

I did a musical episode of 'Scrubs.'

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

There are more seasons of 'the Kardashians' than 'I Love Lucy.'

If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.

I am not that ambitious to do films. I am very happy and secure doing TV.

I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.

I always say I owe my sense of humor to 'The Muppets' because I didn't necessarily know what was going on when I watched 'The Muppet Show,' and obviously, 'Sesame Street' was made just for me.

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

I owe absolutely everything to HBO.

All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

To have my wife stand in front of me on television and give her love and support to me, I will never forget it, and I owe that to her for the rest of my life.

To be very honest, I owe it all to TV, it has made me what I am today. I've learnt the craft from it.

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

I don't have a television in my house. I haven't owned one in years. In truth, it's about mental health for me. It's hard for me to have a television in the house because I'll just stay inside and binge-watch stuff that I don't even want to watch. I've learned when I don't have a TV, it forces me to go outside.

My beard is owned by HBO.

I love the Oxygen network - I love everything about the Oxygen network.