Jeff Garlin Quotes

I don't like everybody who I see on TV.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

It's a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I don't watch 'TUF.' I don't watch it because I don't like how they show me.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not, they're either pop lockin' Soul Train-style after learning they aren't the father, or they're selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.