Michael Kelly Quotes

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.

'The Fosters' is such a fun show to shoot, and I always look forward to getting the new script because we keep pushing the boundaries.

With 'Sons of Anarchy,' I had to leave a couple of times - I got another show, and I had a baby - so they sent me off to rehab. If I hadn't left, they probably would've killed me off by now.

We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out.

I left it entirely in the hands of the 'Emmerdale' team and had no input into how Andy would leave. I put my full trust in them to come up with a way for him to leave that was fitting for the character.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show.

I don't know what's coming down the pike in 'Gotham.' Part of me goes, 'Man, I just wish I could be in the writers' room. Do you need someone to make you guys coffee?' I just want to be a part of the flow of it.

Nobody's ever really dead on 'Game of Thrones.'

'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.

Whenever I pick a script, I make sure I'm choosing something I would want to watch. And 'Quantico' was something I'd definitely want to watch. As soon as I read the pilot - and I read 26 this season - I knew this was it.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft.

With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's quite sad, really.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

Great writing makes great television.