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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.
It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate of.
I have never had a problem with not being able to do anything just because I am on telly every day.
Swimmers do not get a lot of telly time so you are not dealing with a lot of egos.
I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.
I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you're going to do it all over again tomorrow, whereas in telly once it's wrapped and in the can, that's it.
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
I think all technology should be plug and play. I would say it's easier to set up a blog than it is to change channels on your telly.
Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.
Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.
We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.
What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in 'Toast of London' and was in one episode of Catherine Tate's 'Nan.' I was crying with laughter.
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
One thing I love and miss when I'm on the road is company when sitting in front of the box. I love watching telly with my fella.
Television is where I'm most at home. I'm not one of those TV presenters who secretly yearns to be a Hollywood actress. Live telly is what I thrive on.
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.
In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.
You can't have it all one way - be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money - and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.
In my group of friends it's not really a big deal that I'm on telly. They're all much more famous than me.
I'd worked in TV for a number of years before Strictly,' doing kids' telly and a couple of Saturday-night shows, but nothing on that scale.
Gareth Bale is such a great player. I had watched him before on telly and you could see how special he is.
I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.
I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it.
I feel that shows like 'Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' are very much more enjoyable watching with friends around a telly.
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
It's not easy for you, Dad
You seek your own space
You slope off to watch telly
But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.
I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.
My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth. Transformation - I think that's what he represented to me.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.
I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
Every footballer wants to play in big games, in front of full houses, live on the telly.
There's nothing quite like sitting watching the telly on a Saturday night. It has such a nice, homely feel.
I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.
My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.
The girls at 'Loose Women' are my actual friends. They're not just telly friends.
If people think I am a failure because I am not on telly every day, that is their problem.
When I first started on telly, I used to get quite a lot of fan mail from Indians saying it's great that an Indian is on!
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
The nicest thing people can say about us, is, 'I turn the telly on for half an hour and go off with me mates, having a laugh.'
I am 47; I think I must be one of the oldest female newscasters on telly. There's not many of us who still get to work regularly for this long.
It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.
The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around.
You're a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That's all that matters on telly.
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.
When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
