"It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy."
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"It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way."
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"The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'"
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"I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities."
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"When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television."
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"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies."
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"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."
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"There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life."
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"I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests."
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"Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment."
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"I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward."
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"Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television."
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"There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is."
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"I love to perform and I love to perform characters, and sometimes when I'm doing television and film, I just feel like I'm making a living. I'm good at it, but I'm not really being artistically challenged."
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"I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now."
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"Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural."
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"It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't."
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"All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is."
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"I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old."
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"I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life."
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