"The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television."
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"Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting."
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"It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio."
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"History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television."
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"I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced."
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"Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with."
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"The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period."
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"The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?"
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"I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot."
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"Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV."
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"Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore."
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"But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you."
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"Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are."
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"Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself."
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"I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television."
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"Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place."
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"I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business."
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"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."
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"The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks."
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"They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes."
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