Angus T. Jones Quotes

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

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.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

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

I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.

I've never seen 'The Simpsons.'

'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.

I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.

A TV series is a long commitment.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

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.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.