Quotes About Media

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

It's nice to know that people are so interested in my life. But I have never shared anything with the media. I like to keep quiet.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

I'm a private person. I am not too much of a media person also. I talk only when I want to, otherwise I retract quietly.

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to see an upswing of material where we're like, 'It's cool to be quirky and weird and smart.'

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

I don't think I will be able to quit small screen.

I will never quit TV because TV has made me what I am today.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

Bull sharks get quite a lot of bad press.

Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.

I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we buy, often who we talk to, is all shaped and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.

When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I'm never pessimistic.

Dealing with the press it was pretty obvious there was a right answer and there was an honest answer. I think quite a lot of the time I gave the right answer. That was my defence mechanism.

I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it's ability.

I never wanted to see another quiz show.