There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.
If 'The New York Times' didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. 'The Huffington Post' and everything else is predicated on 'The New York Times'. It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
I don't ban bloggers from my shows. I have a separate line: VIP seating for bloggers.
Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.
Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.
