Quotes About Press

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

I get along fine with the press.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.