Quotes About TV

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes, and it is just so against what you are making.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

'Y&R' is the No. 1 show, and the acting company is exceptional.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

I just feel like our children should be given the right, once they know better, whether they want to be on TV or put into the limelight. We have the choice.

Of course I have been watching 'Derry Girls!' Series, link and record! Everything shuts down when it is on the TV. I'm like 'Nobody speak.'

Sadio Mane is an excellent player. Before I came to Liverpool, I saw him on TV, and I liked him a lot.

I have not done too many fiction shows, yes, people love me for my roles on TV.

I was always proud on 'Party of Five'. We never had the biggest audience, but we had arguably the most loyal.

Me a TV star? I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world.

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

As far as the 'Mad Men' thing, I love 'Mad Men.' It's one of my favorite shows; I think it's an amazing series.

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

I felt a mandate to go on TV.

They're not TV shows. They're experiments in how to create attention deficit disorders in the entire population with endless commercials and ads that pop up right in the middle of programs.

The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

That's how pathetic the NBA television contract was at the time. West vs. Robertson and Wilt vs. Kareem…and no TV of any kind.

Advertising is what happens on TV when people go to bathroom.