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I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

I was raised on NBC television.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

I would have been a lot more nervous if I would had known that Matthew McConaughey was [on 30th Annual Television Critics Association Awards] and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was there and all that, and I was like, "Wait a minute and Bryan Cranston's here..." I think I would have got more nervous. But I think thinking it was just like, "Oh yeah critics, we're good." It was great.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.