TV Career Quotes

Becoming the first Indian woman to compete on Food Network's 'Iron Chef' and 'Next Iron Chef' was really a great accomplishment and led to my spot as a judge on 'Chopped.'

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!'

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

Breaking Bad' gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine - I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I never rode a motorcycle before 'CHiPs.'

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'