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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

— Nathan Fillion

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I got a job as a series regular on a television show when I was in my 20s. It didn't get picked up. It only went for 13 or 15 episodes, but it was huge. It was just absolutely huge, and it made me put money in the bank, and I didn't have to worry about bills.

— Christopher Stanley

People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.

— Milton Berle

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

— Edward Burns

I started in this business on soap operas.

— Lauren Holly

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

— Tom Brokaw

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.

— Bob Iger

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

— John Tesh

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

— Michael Jai White

✗Opposing Perspectives

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

— Bethenny Frankel

I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.

— James L. Brooks