Michael Emerson Quotes

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

There's nowhere you can aggregate more people in one fell swoop than a broadcast network; there's no place you can build a star quicker than you can on a broadcast network.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.