In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
I would love to host a television show.
I have non-breaking news for you: FIFA does not care what you think. Over the years, FIFA has never seemed influenced by what is written or said in papers, articles, tweets, blogs, and on television about how it operates.
People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.
Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was the ‘West Wing.’
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
‘Fringe’ is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
I’m just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you’re on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
I started judging a few television shows, making appearances at functions or cutting ribbons because it was convenient for me. It also gave me quick and good money. Now, when I look back, I feel those assignments ruined me as an actress.
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
It’s not that I’m knocking the movie and television work.
People are not in a good mood when any politician’s face appears on television.
It’s a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That’s what we want to do.
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor’s Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I’ve got, and the more I’ve written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it’s a good job that will continue.
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can’t be figuring things out on the day.
‘High Maintenance’ became my calling card for the bulk of my television career.
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
Late night television is ready for someone like me… standards have gone to an all-time low.
I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
I think you need to understand games to write them. There’s a learning curve, just like there’s a learning curve in anything. It’s not precisely the same as film or television, but you’re using the same muscles.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
There have been several television movies, ‘Carrie 2,’ two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, ‘Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that’s not really the audience.’
I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day – even my television wasn’t working!
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.
I just didn’t see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie ‘Farrell for the People.’ I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
