You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

“In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when…

— Mark Simpson

I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the…

— Lance Reddick

I've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for the director's…

— Alan Taylor

I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out.

— Erika Jayne

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

— Carter Burwell

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

I think mainstream music got its worst around 1998 when bands like Smashing Pumpkins with Adore, Marilyn Manson with Mechanical Animals and even PJ…

— Marc Broude

I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as…

— Avicii

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky

One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the…

— Arnold Beichman

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where…

— Timothy Noah

Everything changed after 'Love Shack.' We went 'mainstream.' 'Love Shack' set what people viewed us as, because a lot of people didn't realize we…

— Fred Schneider

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny