Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I don't work all day, every day on 'Rizzoli & Isles,' but I work every day. It may be a scene or two, or it may be an enormous workload, but there's really not a lot of room for anything else, and that's the choice I made. And that's why I stayed away from TV before: Because I know that that's what it is.

The show is called 'MacGyver,' and I've got to be there every day. There are probably a lot of girls out there watching the show that I don't have time to talk to.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.

I don't mind being busy.

I rarely get the time to watch cricket as I am busy with recordings.

I can't do back-to-back films.

I basically work all the time.

My work keeps me so busy that I don't have much time even to interact with my family.

On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.

As it is, I have a busy schedule, and I don't think I have the time for Test matches.

I was in the middle of filming Season 3 of 'Grace and Frankie.' Then the writing process for 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' was happening at the exact same time. And then the pre-production for 'Fatherless' was happening at the exact same time as well.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.

I did try judging a talent hunt series, but honestly, TV is not my cup of tea. The time required, I don't think I will be able to dedicate that kind of slot or even the energy to TV.