I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
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.
