Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

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

If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs.

I have got lots of offers from networks for more reality shows.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

You have never had fair press in America.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.

There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.