Quotes About Media

Isn't television glamourous?

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.

I have never done television, essentially, so the Internet has made me and opened avenues for me.

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

It's not saving the world or anything but I still get such a rush from live television.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.