Quotes About TV

What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

Succeeding, being on TV, being a professional, I was proud of myself, I was happy.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I enjoy being the one on TV. I enjoy being the show.

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.

I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

My intention is not to be an American TV personality. My intention is not to be a Spanish TV personality. My intention is to talk about health and fitness and being a mom.

I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.

The Internet space will only grow exponentially, and it will affect TV for sure. How much is something that only time will tell.

I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.

Tracy and I were pretty good friends before '30 Rock.' The chemistry you see on camera - that's what it is. What you see on camera - that's just friends, so that's why it comes across so well on TV.

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.