Tv Commitment Quotes

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.

When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

I'd love to be Spider-Man, but one, it doesn't fit into the 'Glee' schedule.

When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of a show if it's a hit; they'll stick with something. It's a great network to work with because they make a nice big commitment to a show.

We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?'' He said, 'If I did say yes, you'd have to have a big movie star who does not do TV.' I told him that, in our fantasy world, we'd like Bette Midler. He said, 'Get Bette Midler, and you have an on-the-air commitment.'

When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

I'm not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do anymore TV shows.

I loved my time on 'The Mindy Project' so much. It was only supposed to be half a year. It was really only supposed to be one episode, and then it became three episodes, and then it became half a year, and then it became a year and a half, and then it became two years.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

When I got back from shooting 'Deception,' I was under contract with NBC, so I can't really do anything.

If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

I didn't want to commit to a TV show.

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.