I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.
Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
I think I've got the best staff in television.
'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before.
There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
Strange thing, this television.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.
My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.
What's exciting about Sundance is that they're making a name for themselves in this boutique television niche world, and there's energy behind that.
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
