When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
I grew up on radio, not TV.
'Lootera' happened nearly 10 years after television. It was the first film I auditioned for.
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.
I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.
