Taylor Kinney Quotes

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.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

I would have loved to have been on 'The Walking Dead' longer, but it didn't happen.

I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.

I loved working on 'Boardwalk.' I had a very limited run on it, but I did love it and that was quality television.

TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It's theater onscreen.

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.