Quotes About Media

I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

We are trying to shine a light on the infantilisation of women in the music industry. It's in the fashion and media industries too - this idea that women are more attractive if they look like little girls.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.

I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

My generation is under-entertained.

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.

Personally, I like all actors who are mysterious and don't have social media.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?