Joan Fontaine Quotes

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

I started in this business on soap operas.

I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

A lot of good actors are turning to TV.

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

Television, when you're on the show, it becomes a big, happy family.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.

I started out on the stage, then I had a great career in television for quite a few years. The good news about a TV series is that they give you a certain amount of fame and money. The bad news is that you're in people's living rooms every week and get associated with a particular character.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.

I would watch different TV shows on the Disney Channel like Raven Symone on 'That's So Raven'... and I was like, 'that's something that I really want to do when I get older.'

No actor can refuse a combination of a good story, a Balaji production, and the show being aired on Star Plus.

As far as television is concerned, I'm just not interested in working on a series. Why should I settle for being someone's second banana? And that weekly grind is unrewarding and too demanding.