Mayim Bialik Quotes

After having acted in films down south, I always wanted to work on the small screen but couldn't say yes to everything that was being offered to me.

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

It's a better time for actresses on TV than on film.

I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.