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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

Television isn't my career. Business is.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

Television is a big platform for actors, and so many actors have made it to films from there. And for me, too, it has been a great transition from the small screen to the big screen.

When I started doing television, I had no idea that people were watching it. But then things opened up for television in such a way that it's no more 'small' screen, as it is called.

Wayne Rooney has always made a great impression on me, even though I have only ever seen him on television.

I like television a lot, I'm not an embarrassed guy when a camera appears, I'm very natural and I really like it.

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

There have only been a few reality stars that you say their name, they represent an entire franchise and Linnethia Monique Leakes is that. I think reality television - I think weekly television, appointment TV - is going to miss her.

I come from a competition-based reality show, but nonetheless, I know reality television.

As much as you turn on the television and see our beautiful faces, you'd be amazed to see who is not behind the camera. Who is not in hair and makeup and glam and consulting in all things for Black women.

I did a television commercial when I was 12 back home with Diaw. I have known him a long time. We are very close.

I was hanging out with some of my friends who are on television shows, and when we went to get lunch, people came up to me and not them. It was this really weird moment where you're realizing that the digital world is getting so big, and it's colliding with everything else.

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.