Quotes About Television

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'

I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

Early, I wanted to fight against things: 'Oh, I feel like a background dancer here in the back of the Wyatts.' Man, looking back now, I wish we could still be doing that. I'm on TV every week, plenty of TV. You've got to look at some of the positives of the situation.

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

'Liv and Maddie' actually started out as a different show called 'Bits and Pieces,' and it was a completely different plot, although it was the same cast.

The whole saas-bahu drama is very cliched. I feel there's already too much of that on TV. So I was waiting for something like 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.' The show offered a fresh and interesting plot.

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.

I like to tell people that 'Ballers' has something for everyone. If you are a football fan, then obviously, 'Ballers' is the way to go. The series are using real team names so that's a plus. If you have no interest in football, it's still a show about life, and there's something for everybody on that show.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.

Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama films, though, and I really loved 'Poetic Justice' and 'Set it Off.'

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

With comedic news, it's about having a point of view. If you don't have that, you don't have a show.

I think so much of kids' television, kids' entertainment, is done by adults from a looking-back point of view. If we come up with a really great joke that will make me laugh hard and would make my friends laugh, we pitch it aside.

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

I love 'Pointless.'

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.