Calvin Klein Quotes

What we watch on television, we approve.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Young girls have been infected by television programs and have become sex addicts…. Young women should not laugh in public.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

There is no dignity in television.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame – it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable position to put yourself in... it's something that we all haven't really made our minds up about, and that's why we find it all so interesting.

I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.