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You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

I feel like I'm part of television history.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network, ... We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high school, I found out I got the role. It was unimaginable! I learned so much from that show.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.