Diane Abbott Quotes

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.

When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?

You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media?

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

Times are changing, and it's catching on that the roles on TV and film need to reflect its diverse viewers.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

There's diversity in nature, so why not the media?

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not, they're either pop lockin' Soul Train-style after learning they aren't the father, or they're selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

Don't ever believe what you see in films.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

The Republicans have never had, in their story - conservatives, either, have never had... I'm talking this in a media context, now. They've never had an agenda or a story that the media would like them to have.

My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.