Quotes About Media

Being in the limelight with 'Glee,' I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Most trolls are seeking attention by trying to get a response. So best is to ignore.

One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don't have to keep fielding media/politicians' enquiries about 'Britishness' and its ills.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's houses every day - I'm there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

All you see on television are debased images.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's only for 60 seconds, max.

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.

My dad, bless his heart, always told me I was beautiful, so I was never self-conscious in that way. But when you look at the images on TV, you think you need to look like that in order to be sexy.