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.
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Acting in 'Command & Conquer 3' called for me to interact with the player and to look directly into the camera, which is a big no no when filming for TV or film.
You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.
I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.
Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.
I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.
