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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.