Quotes About Media

TV and media create in many people a sense of entitlement to happiness, love and care from others. [...] The problem with this [...] is that we are stuck looking for lovability, worth and our true place in life from other mere mortals. If everyone is looking for it, who has a surplus of love and care to give to fill our need? [...] We must accept that our lovability and worth don't come from others. They come from ourselves!

Small talk depletes creativity. Social media stifles thought. Even choosing an outfit every morning is needless effort. So, for one week, we will let all that nonsense go. We will engage instead with big talk. Character. Plot.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

I would never invite cameras into my life again.

I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.

Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!

We live in a culture of violence.

Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the TV—20 percent more than 10 years ago. And we are getting this exposure at younger and younger ages, made all the more complex because of the wide variety of digital screen time now available. In 2003, 73 percent of kids under 6 watched television every day. And children younger than 2 got two hours and five minutes of "screen time" with TVs and computers per day.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Suspense in news is torture.

It is too early to tell whether the Internet's effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close.'49

Because whatever we focus on in life grows. Focus on the bad and it is multiplied, it's everywhere (watch the news tonight if you don't believe me. Reporters are experts at this). Focus on the good and it expands, it's all around.

In spite of the concerted press campaign to transform me into some upstart wordsmith who had inexplicably won the pools ('Osborne mellows now he's on £1,000 a week'), I was not earning great sums from any of the three plays now that tow of them had finished their Broadway runs.