Quotes About Media

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile.

I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him.

Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.

I'm in constant battle with MTV to see where the line falls. You know, the things I do and say and the things they profit on and the things I profit on.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

I was once asked to be a guest presenter on 'The Big Breakfast' for a week while Chris Evans was away, but I said no as I knew I'd be hopeless. If they asked me to guest present the 'Today' programme on Radio 4, however, I'd jump at the chance.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.