It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
How did I know? Paul, I've known since you were eight and I caught you masturbating in front of the TV to Bo and Luke Duke.
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
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.
I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.
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.
