Quotes About Television

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

Television demands continuity and more work month after month. One has to also maintain quality as it reaches not just India but U.K., Canada, Pakistan, and Dubai as well. It is very powerful. And the risk of flopping like a film is also not there!

The content on Pakistani TV is good; their shows are natural and real.

I am a museum curator when I am not on the television and in our collection at Kensington Palace we have a book like Marie Antoinette's, which belonged to the daughters of George III.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.

I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

I go home and take all of my make-up off. Then I sit in my pants or a tracksuit and watch 'Birds Of A Feather.' That's most nights of my life.

In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

I don't watch football debate shows on TV, hardly listen to the radio or read the papers.

There are innumerable television channels and papers, all very aggressive and not willing to take no for an answer.

After the 'Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain' controversy, people believed they made my career, but I now maintain that 'Bigg Boss' made Shilpa Shinde.

Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

There was one family drama on television when we took out 'The Fosters' - 'Parenthood'. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it.

Having a kid who begged for 'just a few more minutes' of television was the antithesis of what I had hoped parenthood would be. It was resigning ourselves to a universe of want and consumption.

I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.