I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'
I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.
I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.
The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.
I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
