Quotes About Media

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

There comes a time in the life of every government when the media decide that it has blundered so fatally that a complete recovery is now impossible. In such phases - and every single political party has encountered them - editorials become political obituaries that declare the end.

The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.

I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

I hated working red carpets, I hated the whole celebrity interview process. I just realized I'd rather be the person somebody wanted to ask questions to than the person asking the questions.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed.

I guess I get to make films and I love what I do, but there's also the downside of having to be constantly present and do a lot of press, and go to festivals and do the red carpet. And that's something that's more and more part of an actor's job.

I'm trying to get an internship at the ESPYS. I'd like to do interviews on the red carpet.

If you do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever, if you're fat and you've got red hair, look, they're going to pick on you.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.

A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.