Javed Jaffrey Quotes

But reality television is here to stay.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Nowadays, television has taken over big time and I'm really enjoying my stints there.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.

It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

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

I don't watch that much television.

Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.

I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience.

'EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I'm completely done with reality TV.

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