I've always said, 'Besides Kiefer Sutherland, I talked on a cell phone more than any other actor on a TV show.'
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
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 think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.
