When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.
The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.
Roughly 65% of American households owned a video recorder by 1989, when 'The Simpsons' was launched. This meant that fans could watch episodes several times and pause a scene when they had spotted something curious.
You would obviously like to be on BBC2, BBC1 all the time.
Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
There was a day when doing TV was like, oh my God, the end of your career. Now it's just like, we all want to do TV; we all want to do great TV.
I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.
It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.
The reality television shows are a big hit with the masses with their Bollywood songs. Even if these TV shows are scripted, people are watching them.
All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.
A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.
The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.
TV is a medium where I've been an outsider for the most part.
In the States I got asked to do every TV show.
'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.
Nowadays, television has taken over big time and I'm really enjoying my stints there.
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
When I started doing television, I had no idea that people were watching it. But then things opened up for television in such a way that it's no more 'small' screen, as it is called.
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
