I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.
I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.
The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.
I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.
There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.
