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I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in, and I worked so hard on Deb, because I just wanted to swear. I wanted to say all those nasty words. That was it: "I want to swear on television!".

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

I saw Vicente Fox use the word that he used. I can only tell you, if I would have used even half of that word, it would have been national scandal. This guy used a filthy, disgusting word on television, and he should be ashamed of himself, and he should apologize, OK?

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.