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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.