Quotes About Television

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.

There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

This is the great thing about TV is that when you discover certain strengths in an actor, you can then begin to exploit them in really fun ways.

Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

TRP ratings affect me. There are times when the ratings are so low that we feel that we could have done something more. But that is about it. I don't stress over it too much.

People tell me Especially while we are stressed out, we watch just one episode of 'Kichdi' and immediately feel de-stressed.'

Cable TV? Stressful? Never.

Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.

It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that's just like a whole new level of stress.

Filming TOWIE' can be so stressful. It is in the contract everyone has to see a psychiatrist. You have to see them and get checked over before the series starts and at the end.

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

Hats off to Julian and Johnny, the producers, for sticking to their guns with the five-season story arc of 'Merlin'. It would have been too easy to give in to demand and stretch the show on beyond their original plan because of its incredible success.

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.

Whenever I get time from my TV shoots, say 10-15 days at a stretch, that's when I complete shooting for films.

I personally love working for finite series as it's important to convey that stories need not be stretched; they can get over in a year and still be loved by audiences.