Ben Harney Quotes

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Television and I grew up together.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of their duties to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and increase the population.

I try to be a good role model for my son, my family, my friends, and then I try to be a good role model for the rest of the people, too.

We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.

We rappers are role models.

If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

oh how television diminishes everything.

I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.