Noel Coward Quotes

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

I just don't like reality TV.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

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

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

I can say that. I have a television show.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

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.

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

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 can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.