Allison Tolman Quotes

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.

What you see on TV is what you believe you can be.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

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

The press creates a caricature.

People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.