I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.
In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.
'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.
Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is 'The Simpsons'.
Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'
On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.
I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It's taking the integration model to another level.
Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
I don't let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials.
I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.
I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.
The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.
