Percelle Ascott Quotes

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

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.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

TV is a medium with a wide reach and viewers consider actors role models. Hence, one must realize the responsibility of portraying a certain character.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

TV and film has defined my entire life.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

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.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

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

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

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.