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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 want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.
I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.
I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.
Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.
We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.
I feel that shows like 'Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' are very much more enjoyable watching with friends around a telly.
If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.
I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.
When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.
In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.
People always ask me if I'm best friends with everyone I work with in telly - but no, not everyone you work with is your friend.
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.
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.
My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.
I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.
I think all technology should be plug and play. I would say it's easier to set up a blog than it is to change channels on your telly.
You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
I don't watch an awful lot of television. It's a very strange thing, and I don't know a lot of people who work in telly who watch a lot of it.
People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
You can't have it all one way - be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money - and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.
I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.
Television is where I'm most at home. I'm not one of those TV presenters who secretly yearns to be a Hollywood actress. Live telly is what I thrive on.
I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on the telly without overcomplicating things.
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 don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
After your heart fails, you just feel really vulnerable for a while. You just want telly and your little house. Then, suddenly, three, four months have passed.
When I'm on tour I just ring up the theatres, book it and go on. You can pretty much go on tour when you want but you can't just make a telly show when you want.
I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely, but my generation didn't watch telly.
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 would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'
Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
I think it's always difficult to get a show on telly, whether you're George Clooney or just starting out. But there's room. If you're into it, chase it. You'll get it.
My mum, who comes from Goa, wanted us to develop our minds when we were kids, so she used to turn the electricity off at weekends so we couldn't sit watching the telly.