Marshall McLuhan Quotes

I'd like to have a little better relationship with the media. It's just that I don't think the media is comfortable with me.

I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

I love the media, I live with the media.

I want to have a go at presenting. As a child I was always filming my own TV shows with my sister, so it feels natural to me.

I am in the business of entertainment.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

There's no question that the media today has a relationship with Barack Obama that... I can't say it's unique, because the modern-day media is the Democrat Party and their objective is to advance the Democrat Party agenda as well as try to discredit any opposing agenda, which would be us and the Republicans. But the relationship they've got with Obama is above and beyond that.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.

Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.