Benjamin Clementine Quotes

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.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

Hollywood is very divisive.

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don't know any.

I think professional wrestling will always be a reflection of how society is.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

People have been accusing me of that ever since I got involved in politics. Some would just like to stick a pin through me like insect researchers do a dried butterfly and then say: Look, there's the banker who doesn't like people. If that were the case, I would not be here. I am not arrogant to the French - I am determined.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian - ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.