Quotes About Entertainment

I don't want food all over the place, down the sides of the sofa... When I shared a flat before I got married, we would always eat around the telly, but not now!

I don't really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I'd try this but quite quickly I just stick them down. I do like some Stephen King books but with some of them I just put them down as well. But I'm like that with telly stuff as well and films or music.

If the Internet went down or there was no telly I would be 'oh no, oh no.'

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can.

Every footballer wants to play in big games, in front of full houses, live on the telly.

I don't think telly actors are inferior to Bollywood stars in any way.

I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.

Making the 'Big Show' has been the most fun I've had on telly.

I feel that shows like 'Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' are very much more enjoyable watching with friends around a telly.

We had a black and white telly in the corner of the room that had three channels. There was nothing to keep you around the house. It was a different time.

I never really wanted to be on telly.

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I love being able to do a bit of theatre, do a bit of telly, and do a bit of film.

I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and hopefully that'll make them dig further. I really believe in my form. That's why I haven't done a lot of telly, and I'm not a regular on any panel shows, and I'm not in a sitcom or all those things.