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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.