Quotes About Evolution

There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

The Internet space will only grow exponentially, and it will affect TV for sure. How much is something that only time will tell.

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.

I never like to stick to one media; whether it's a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

It's a challenge every year with a TV series. You want to keep evolving and keep it going. That's part of the fun.

A character in a TV series tends to grow and take shape as you go along.

Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them.

Previous candidates who get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility they take on. Donald Trump shows no evidence of that. He's the same Trump that he was when he was host of his reality TV show. He's the same Trump that he was when he was a candidate.

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.