Quotes About Television

I'm a worker. I like to work and I like to provide work for other people. I like to put people on my show who normally would never have a chance at being on television.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.