Media Quotes - Page 54

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

Roxanne came along in '86, when I was doing a lot of stand-up. I auditioned for the movie, and of course I was a huge Steve Martin fan, so I really hoped I would get this part. I don't think there was any part in particular that I auditioned for. I just went in and talked with them. There were so many parts in there, and so many comedians ended up getting in that movie, playing different firemen and townspeople.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

My reputation is a media creation.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.