You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
My favorite – and I’ve said this before, I know – but my favorite TV show of all time is ‘Twin Peaks.’
I’ve had some very close encounters with the other side. They chose me to do this – I was doing this all before a TV show. They chose me to communicate with them; they chose my path as a paranormal.
It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don’t know what’s coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what’s happening.
You don’t make a movie by yourself; you certainly don’t make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
Probably the TV show I’ve watched the most is ‘How It’s Made’ on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of ‘How It’s Made’ and never get bored.
I think the ’80s works for a TV show because it’s the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.
I could sell my own TV show, but I couldn’t get it made.
That TV show, ‘After Thought,’ is really exciting. It’s a cross between ‘Inception’ and ‘CSI’ that I’m working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the ‘Twilight’ movies.
With ‘Being the Elite’ you’ll see some of the most innovative stuff, but it’s going to be very different then the weekly TV show. But that’s by design and I want to keep it that way so you’ll have outlets to see different things.
When you are part of a massive TV show like Strictly,’ it’s not just about the professional dancers and celebrities taking part, there could be young or old people out there who are watching and they might also be inspired to take up dancing, and I find that so special.
It’s something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ and being really nervous. My mom was like, ‘Laura, don’t worry: I’ve watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.’
My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn’t be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don’t need them.
I have 50 rejected TV show ideas. I think when I hit 100, then I’ll feel like I really started to make it.
I’m just a regular guy. I have two kids, I do photography, I pay my mortgage – I just happened to be on a TV show.
I didn’t ‘join’ Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on – then I suddenly realised I’d been with these guys for four years. If I’d been called up and asked to join, I would have said no.
Part of our job is to dig deep and rediscover the joy that we had when we were first starting out. Also, when you gain responsibility, if you are the host of a TV show and you have responsibilities as a producer and a writer and so forth, you then have to deal with the mechanics of it, which is not always fun.
My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.
A TV show is sometimes like a club. Sometimes you need to refresh.
I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I’d have to go with an actual TV show and say ‘The Walking Dead’.
In my experience on ‘New York Undercover,’ where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn’t have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.
Luckily enough for me I reached a level in the game where no one questioned my work ethic or my ability and then I was like, I don’t care. Every off-season I might do a scene in a TV show or something just to keep that going.
It’s great that Mary Berry got a primetime TV show, but I don’t think there are enough women chefs on TV.
The last TV show I really indulged in was ‘Breaking Bad,’ and I was in such a state of mourning when it ended. I’ve got to choose my next one carefully.
We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we’re getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people.
I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.
My whole initial goal was to be a comedian, so it’s not like I chose to do a TV show out of nowhere. It’s kind of always been goal to do a TV show.
I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
My favourite TV show is… ‘Downton Abbey.’ The characters are wonderful, and the style is created so beautifully on screen. Everything from the table settings to the linen seem perfect to me. While I’m watching it, I’m in a totally different world.
I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can’t remember people’s names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can’t think of George Clooney, I’ll say, ‘You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show… ‘ Until someone says his name, I can’t finish my story!
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done – was called ‘Family.’
In ‘Stranger Things,’ of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you’re more connected with everyone already. But it’s fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There’re pros and cons to everything.
I lived in my parents’ basement until the age of 25 while I was trying to get my TV show off the ground.
I’d love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has ‘The Good Wife,’ or a lovely ensemble show, like ‘Six Feet Under.’
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
As I plotted ‘Blueprints,’ I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment – and that I needed a TV show in my book.
Probably the TV show I’ve watched the most is ‘How It’s Made’ on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of ‘How It’s Made’ and never get bored. Or ‘Dirty Jobs’ – that’s even better!
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it’s immediate, and people write about it.
One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I’m not on any particular kind of clock.
People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.
Television is such an evolving medium. When you’re doing a TV show, it’s not like you just shoot for six weeks and you’re in an editing room with all of your footage. It’s like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what’s not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.
I’ve learnt that I’ve had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that’s really all I can offer – being authentic.
I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it’s a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.
I’ve always said, ‘Besides Kiefer Sutherland, I talked on a cell phone more than any other actor on a TV show.’
My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.
On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they’re vital to a production, they’re just not used.
Pointless’ – I think it’s probably the greatest daytime TV show that has ever existed.
Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.
The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it’s harder to do.
I was distributing DVDs in Mumbai in 2006, and that is when I got my first TV show offer – ‘Left Right Left.’
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I’m watching a movie or a TV show and there’s that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called ‘Shikast’ and a lot of ‘Sea Hawks.’ I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.
I was in a TV show called ‘Lucky’ on FX. The casting director from ‘Lucky’ was casting ‘Dragon Wars’. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.
I feel like with ‘Hubie,’ it was just a matter of the difference between working on a movie versus a TV show. TV shows, it’s like a long period of time and you’re living there, and with this movie, it was kind of in and out.
