I took acting classes in college and once I graduated I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do so I like to do movies I like to do television.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests private interests.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

But of course when people watch morning television Terry it's a very different animal. You know they're running around they're getting their kids ready for school they're probably doing eight million things they're brushing their teeth.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers it was prohibitively expensive to make a film to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles both at the office as a mom and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life not just one single occasion.

I've always wanted to be an actress ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior things that a person will say against women profanity being gangster having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem but television is a little different because we shot those shows the whole way through.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically having come from television.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word which I think is still the most important thing.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news to information to knowledge to entertainment. How is it bad?

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen even the writers.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.