Jedediah Bila Quotes

I never watched any award show.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.

I've always been a fan of the VMAs, and I've always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

I have love for the entertainment side of the world.

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

If you want to know what's going on in America, you have to watch soap operas.

Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they weren't really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that's Hollywood.

I love going to the movies; I grew up going to the movies. I didn't really watch TV, growing up, other than weird cartoons like 'Beavis & Butt-Head.'

I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.

I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day.

If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.

I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

I loved the Oscars, and I had V.H.S. tapes for the Oscars, and I used to watch them over and over. There was probably one year where I watched it, like, 20 times or something.

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.