Quotes About Media

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

When you're telling the truth and ahead of the mainstream media - like The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Cernovich, and other truth-tellers - then they're going to think you're wrong, because they can't see what you see.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

I never really wanted to be on telly.

When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.