Quotes About Media

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

I never let the media dictate my identity, so the fact that I'm a size 14 or a size 2 or a size 8 or a size 4, I kind of rock and roll. It doesn't matter to me.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

I'm so proud to be a real woman, a size 14 woman on the cover of a magazine like 'Ralph.' Women's publications rarely put size 14 women on the cover, let alone men's, so I'm really honoured and proud to be on the cover and representing curvy, sexy women out there.

I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

There really hasn't been a name that is in the media on a daily basis, and that's what skating in the '90s was. Everyone knew, after the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident - Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan - everyone knew these names. They were household names because they were winning; they were on TV.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

The Internet is a sketch show.

Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!

I love TV. I've done it since I was 16. I don't have another skill.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there's a magazine out there that said, 'Oh, size two,' or, 'Oh, this girl's beautiful because she's skinny.'

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?