Journalism quotes

“We got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them.”
Michael Keaton - Walter 'Robby' Robinson

“- Ben Bradlee: We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?
- Kay Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.”
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Baron told us to get the system. We need the full scope. That's the only thing that will put an end to this.
- Mike Rezendes: Then let's take it up to Ben and let him decide.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: We'll take it to Ben when I say it's time.
- Mike Rezendes: It's time, Robby! It's time! They knew and they let it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Walter 'Robby' Robinson
Mark Ruffalo - Mike Rezendes

“- Nina Romina: How much of this can we show?
- Linda: You mean, legally?
- Nina Romina: No, morally; of course, legally.”
Rene Russo - Nina Romina
Ann Cusack - Linda

“- Barry B. Benson: What is that?
- Ken: Italian Vogue.
- Barry B. Benson: Mamma mia! That's a lot of pages.
- Ken: It's a lot of ads.”
Jerry Seinfeld - Barry B. Benson
Patrick Warburton - Ken

“If you try and make this job about the money, you'll be nothing but miserable, 'cause we don't get the money - never have, never will.”

Robert Duvall - Bernie White

“He was never a person, he was a journalist!”

Jason Lee - Jeff Bebe

“Yes, yes, I hate you all. When I'm President I'll have you all killed.”

Jay O. Sanders - Senator John McGlory

“Caustic wit is my religion.”
Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel

“Sound journalism must defend the voiceless, not send them further into silence.”
Joanna Douglas - Miss Stacy

“I'm a journalist, Philomena. We ask questions. We don't believe something just because we're told it's the truth.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“- New York Times Reporter: If the Times had your report, we would print it, tomorrow.
- Daniel Jones: No. If it's gonna come out, it's gonna come out the right way.”
Matthew Rhys - New York Times Reporter
Adam Driver - Daniel Jones

“The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.”
Elizabeth Olsen

“- Helen St. James: I live here now. I have a job.
- Don Birnam: Doing what?
- Helen St. James: Time Magazine.
- Don Birnam: Oh, Time Magazine. Perhaps you can do something for me?
- Helen St. James: Yes?
- Don Birnam: Could you help me become Man-of-the-Year?”
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.”
Jennifer Aniston

“It’s like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write, in some way, something that would make someone else care as much about it as I did at the time. Part of it is you’re never going to get to where you’re going if you acknowledge fear. I think fear comes later,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“- Sean Ryan: Hey, Marie. I need you in Palestine, not Sri Lanka.
- Marie Colvin: Sean, there is an unreported war there.
- Sean Ryan: Yes, because journalists have been banned for more than six years. I can’t let you go. ”
Tom Hollander - Sean Ryan
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“- Jenny Lerner: I want exclusivity.
- President Beck: Now listen, young lady. This is a presidential favour. I'm letting you go because I don't want another headache. And I'm trusting you because I know what this can do for your career. Now, it may seem like we have each other over the same barrel but it just seems that way.”

Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner
Morgan Freeman - President Beck

“- NewspaperEditor: I'm not looking for writers. I'm looking for ideas. Ideas with heart. If you pitch me a... a great idea with heart, you get to write it. That's the wonderful world of freelance.
- Parker Concorde: Well, actually, I'm working on this... psychic hotline article.
- NewspaperEditor: Good. How's it end?
- Parker Concorde: How...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joey Travolta - Newspaper Editor
Johnathon Schaech - Parker Concorde

“You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up. That's it. We're guys, we're easy. Of course for that you can't charge six bucks an issue, now can you?”
Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris

“- Gloria: You know what could've prevented all this, don't you?
- Charles 'Chuck' Lane: No, what?
- Gloria: Pictures. How could you make up characters if everyone you wrote about had to be photographed?”

Linda Smith - Gloria
Peter Sarsgaard - Charles 'Chuck' Lane

“Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around.”
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron

“Do you know what my husband said about the news? He called it the first rough draft of history.”
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“Our standards have to be higher than anyone else because we are the standard of everyone else.”

Gina Gershon - Helen Caperelli

“- The Journalist: Most writers want to be famous.
- Jackie Kennedy: You want to be famous?
- The Journalist: No, I'm fine as I am.
- Jackie Kennedy: You should prepare yourself, this article will bring you a great deal of attention.
- The Journalist: Ah. In that case, any advice for me?
- Jackie Kennedy: Yes. Don't marry the president.”

Billy Crudup - The Journalist
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy