Randy West Quotes

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

If my career isn't moving ahead I may consider TV.

It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I've been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.

I could sell my own TV show, but I couldn't get it made.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.