Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.
I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.
If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.
It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.
Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
