Television Fame Quotes

I've appeared three times on 'The Good Wife.' I'm proud of being associated with the show. 'Time' magazine called it 'the best thing on TV outside cable.' Did I mention that I also appear on cable?

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.

I would love to be on TV, but a good show has to come my way.

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'

I have realised that TV is extremely gratifying in the sense that people see you in their houses, and they get very attached to you.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

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

I didn't know what it would be like being on 'X Factor' with my husband. It's surpassed everything I could have expected.

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

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.

I am lucky to be part of a 'Kyunki.' Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television show.

We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.

I'm forever grateful for 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and Bravo for all the opportunities it has brought me and my growing family.

In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, 'I'm awesome. Why don't you treat me like an adult?' I was arrogant.

As his celebrity grew in stature, as he transformed from line cook to chef at Les Halles and further high-grade Manhattan restaurants to charismatic television star, I kept hoping - foolishly, perhaps - that Bourdain might return to his first writing love, to the books he wrote and published when his audience was smaller but still devoted.