Quotes About Television

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.