Quotes About Media

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

The bottom line is: Polls can be provocative, informative, fun or maddening. But as we move into 2020, it's important to be mindful that news organizations or those interpreting their polling results may not always be providing context that would allow us to have the most complete and accurate picture of the public's mood at a given moment.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological impact that anybody's willing to talk about.

Because there is something psychologically wrong with you on some level if you want to be on TV, if the only way you can fulfill yourself is by literally going from three dimensions to two dimensions.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Live broadcasting was something only done by the rich news organizations. So when you bring it to the masses, the public gets really excited.

I don't want my personal life to become a part of public domain. It is something that is sacred and means a lot to me. I don't want it to become some frivolous gossip column.

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.