A lot of times, sets are not such fun places to be, and especially television sets, because everybody works so hard, and everybody's kind of grumbling about getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning and not getting home until midnight.
I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.
Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
