Michael Emerson Quotes

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

Every set has their own personalities and their own quirks. It's funny comparing starring in a show to going in and doing recurring work - there's already a rhythm that's been established, and people know each other so well. It's like being a guest in someone else's home.

I'm from Mexico, and I've heard some horror stories about cast members who can't stand each other. What we have on 'Jane' is a blessing. We do table reads for every single episode one day before it starts to shoot.

Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.

It was nice working with a jolly team in 'Gangaa.' I was well-acquainted with the production team, which was same on 'Balika Vadhu.'

Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.

I loved Married With Children. That was the job that against all odds - you know, when I first read the script, I thought, "No one will ever watch this, but I think this is so fun." So I was really happy to be involved in it. And we laughed every single day. It was the funniest 11 years. We really, really enjoyed it.

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.

All the writers on our show went in and got in the bed and took a picture in Cher's bed, even though she was never in it.

I loved working with Adam Driver.

I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called 'The Philanthropist' for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called 'Hap and Leonard.' He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.

The first time Rachie and I will be working together is on an episode of 'Doctor Who' specially written for us by Mark Gatiss. How lucky is that?

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.

Thank you to everyone who works with us on our shows for making us look like we know what we're doing.

'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers.

'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my training wheels for action coverage.

Being on 'Veep,' it's so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.

I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

John Sullivan's scripts were always very funny, and cast and crew got on well.