Quotes About Television

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.'

In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.

I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.