When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.
I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.
Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.
Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or. . . all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.
The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.
I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.