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.
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.
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.
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.
I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you don't get that. You don't get that immediate response.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
