Dennis Hopper Quotes

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'd like to work for, too. But TV and acting is really funny and a bit more exciting than shooting all the time.

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.

We love doing commercial and TV show work.

I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I do a lot on TV.

I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.

I like working with television. I do.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

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

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.

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 had an opportunity to move to L.A. back in 1999 and start up a horse racing network of all things. At the time, I was younger and married but didn't have kids; so we thought, Let's just go to L.A. for a while and have fun, and we can always come home. One thing led to another; and once I was out there, I had my eyes opened to this other world and quickly got a home and gardens show and did a game show and then The Bachelor ended up falling into my lap in 2001. And 'the rest is history' as they say.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

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.