When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with.
And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
It's show business. No show, no business.
Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.
One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.
Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself
But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.
I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.
And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.
I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
On a clear day I can see NYC. I just have to turn on the TV.
Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.
