"Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV."
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"TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about."
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"My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show."
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"So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen."
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"I wish I'd watched less TV."
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"Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions."
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"I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point."
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"One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with."
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"You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide."
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"When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it."
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"I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV."
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"I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling."
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"Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature."
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"Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV."
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"I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV."
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"TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was."
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"Reruns are my favorite things on TV."
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"With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win."
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"Every time I went on TV I got a threat."
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"I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms."
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