Quotes About Television

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

Now I've become classy, else I would not have been on 'Koffee with Karan.'

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they are; and I think it's the same with books.

How long does it take to make 'They Think It's All Over?' It's just laughing at each other and thinking, 'Aren't we clever?'

Without sounding too cliche, my part on 'Getting On' is the best role I've ever had. It is so rich, it is so well rounded, and I am happy to be right here. I feel like I lucked out and got one of the richest characters on TV because he is so complex.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

If I want to go to sleep, click on a procedural, put me right out.

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

I don't work on television round the clock.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

I don't watch any shows but I have been following international series such as 'The Big Bang Theory,' 'Clue' and 'Modern Family.' I would love to be part of any of these if they are recreated in India.

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

You know, TV, by nature is a collaborative process.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

It's a collective experience when you're making TV. You think of all the people who work hard to make this extraordinary and you just hope that it works well.

I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'