Quotes About Television

People know a lot about my life - I've been on TV since I was three years old. And there's not a lot to complain about.

Kyunki' will never end. The way the story is going I don't see an end. People always complain that it's dragging along but they have to watch it every night!

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

You have to be a bit mad and conceited to go on television.

I wouldn't wish a night of 1971 television on my worst enemy. But the records of 1971, again, still live for us now. And they had the benefit at the time of having the kind of uninterrupted, unimpeded concentration of a huge generation of people. Because the only thing I wanted to spend money on when I was 21 was records.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

I have to confess that I've never seen Australian 'MasterChef.'

Throughout my career, people have totally confused 'Laguna Beach' and 'The O.C.' I think, in people's minds, it all kind of got blurred over time.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

When someone says, 'I recognize you,' I'll say, 'Congratulations on having a TV.' It's a little joke.

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

I'm very conditioned by my surroundings, by the influences of social media, by the television I watch. And I always found, growing up, that even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in television and film, I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

Television allows for survival, which is the basic issue for me. You have to decide how much money is enough. You can't get carried away with the hunt for money. But there are times it shows up, and you need to grab it, and that allows you to hunt for a better script.