Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.
National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.
I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.
I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you don't get that. You don't get that immediate response.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'
I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.
It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
