Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Jackson

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Billy Bush

Where is Tony? Why didn't he come to the MTV VMAs?

Cat Deeley

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

Bill Griffith

MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.

Alexandra Patsavas

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

Carson Daly

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

Angie Martinez

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

Ty Segall

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Shirley Manson

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Donald Barthelme

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Damon Albarn

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

David Bowie

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Anna Kendrick

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

Dan Fogelberg

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough

Anne Hathaway

I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

Kirsten Dunst

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Nafisa Joseph

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

James Hetfield

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

Leonard Slatkin

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Ozzy Osbourne

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Glenn Beck

We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV , MSNBC, Facebook , all of these all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.

Jack Kirby

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

Jeaniene Frost

MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

Sebastian Bach

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.

Martha Quinn

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

Penn Jillette

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

Nina Blackwood

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

Nina Blackwood

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

Nick Rhodes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

Chris Rock

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

Prince

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.