Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.

When I tweet, I try and accomplish three things. One, is to make you laugh. Two, is to inform you. Three, is to enlighten you. That's all I do.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.