TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

Being on TV and getting everything paid for are the two reasons to do it with us instead of the court of law.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

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