Quotes About Media

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

I was low-key abusing myself. The idea of being skinny became something that was most appealing to me. Even if you watch 'The Real,' from season 1 to season 4, I was always 100 lbs. I started to really work hard to stay petite and to not gain weight and to stay sample size.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day.

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

I barley read stuff about myself. Even when I see some article about myself in a paper or a magazine, nine out of 10 times, I skip it.

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.

On TV they keep their kids. Love them.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.