Norman Lear Quotes

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."

I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers' apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show. So to go from watching Dwayne and Whitley to writing for Dwayne and Whitley was incredible.

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

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.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

I used to host a show 'Ghuggi Express' on Zee Punjabi and it aired more than 130 episodes and I single handedly managed the show.

I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

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.

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

I loved my time on 'The Mindy Project' so much. It was only supposed to be half a year. It was really only supposed to be one episode, and then it became three episodes, and then it became half a year, and then it became a year and a half, and then it became two years.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

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.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

I'm so happy I get to do 'Riverdale,' and I love the people I'm doing it with.

ITV have been fantastic and I still have a good relationship with them, but I probably won't be back on 'Loose Women.'

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

Both my parents had never been to New York, so when they got to go out with me for 'Good Morning America,' they were so happy.