I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.
