'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.
And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.
I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
