Journalism quotes

“You want me to use my influence as a journalist to debate the right to bear arms with you, because you've got a gun pointed at me?”
Jonathan Scarfe - Bill Tollman

“If we can get a picture of Julia Roberts in a thong, we can certainly get a picture of this weirdo.”

J. K. Simmons - J. Jonah Jameson

“This was my story. Sherman McCoy was my baby, my creation.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow

“There's so many show offs in journalism, so many braggarts and jerks. They're always selling, always working the room, always trying to make themselves look hotter than they actually are. The good news is reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself, if you are even a little humble and a little self-effacing.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“You paid one hundred thousand dollars for that! Paid it to the killer! Do you call that journalism? We're in show business, baby. Make them laugh, make them cry, make them buy, by and by.”

Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale

“A clipboard and a confident wave will get you into any building in the world!”
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“Solving mysteries was a lot more fun than selling them.”
B.J. Ward - Velma Dinkley

“I'm just a dumb newspaper man. I believe Monday follows Sunday. I believe that summer follows spring. I believe in God and glasnost. I believe in things you can touch.”
Ryan O'Neal - Philip Train

- Jeffrey Wigand: How did a radical journalist from Ramparts Magazine end up at CBS?
- Lowell Bergman: I still do the tough stories. "60 Minutes" reaches a lot of people.
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“Lois, Clark Kent may seem like just a mild-mannered reporter, but listen, not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.”
Jackie Cooper - Perry White

“- Pete Curtis: You really think Sukarno's going to let the commies have their own little private army?
- Guy Hamilton: That's what Aidit says.
- Pete Curtis: Aidit's lying.
- Guy Hamilton: Maybe.
- Pete Curtis: Then why report it?
- Guy Hamilton: Maybe he's not lying.”
Michael Murphy - Pete Curtis
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“Journalism is the art of capturing behavior and you have to know who you are writing for, you have to know what you're good at.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“- Ben: I'm in advertising. I work mostly with alcoholic beverages and athletic equipment companies, and I'm trying to break into the jewellery market right now.
- Andie: Saving the world one keg party at a time?
- Ben: What about you?
- Andie: What about me?
- Ben: Have I seen your work?
- Andie: I work at Composure.
- Ben: Fastest growing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Ben Barry
Kate Hudson - Andie Anderson

“- Walter Burns: You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering - it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley.
- Hildy Johnson: It's the other way around.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Some reporters think it's political content that makes an article memorable. I think it's the people that you write about; you find their quarks, their flaws, what makes them funny and what makes them human.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“What we in the news business can never forget is that we are only as good as the stories we tell.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Tally Atwater

“- Thomas Fowler: I have never thought of myself as a correspondent, just a reporter. I offer no point of view, I take no action, I don't get involved. I just report what I see.
- Alden Pyle: But you must have an opinion.
- Thomas Fowler: Even an opinion is a form of action.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler
Brendan Fraser - Alden Pyle

“- Muhammad Ali: Man, without me, you'd just be a mouth and a microphone.
- Howard Cosell: Without me, you'd just be a mouth.”
Will Smith - Muhammad Ali
Jon Voight - Howard Cosell

“- Sydney Schanberg: I got a story to get to New York!
- Dith Pran: Don't leave me!
- Sydney Schanberg: I won't leave you.”
Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg
Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

“- Perry White: Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture.
- Jimmy Olsen: Chief, I didn't have my camera with me.
- Perry White: A photographer eats with his camera! A photographer sleeps with his camera!
- Lois Lane: I'm glad I'm a writer.”
Jackie Cooper - Perry White
Marc McClure - Jimmy Olsen
Margot Kidder - Lois Lane

“Here, the men's only choice is between German bullets and ours. But there's another way. The way of courage. The way of love of the Motherland. We must publish the army newspaper again. We must tell magnificent stories, stories that extol sacrifice, bravery. We must make them believe in the victory. We must give them hope, pride, a desire to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Fiennes - Commisar Danilov

“You can't do this, I'm English! And an award-winning journalist. Well, maybe not award-winning, but I have been to lots of award ceremonies.”
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- Billy Kwan: That's the real Jakarta. Scrounging for a few handfuls of rice to keep them alive another day. That's a story you journalists don't tell in your reports.
- Guy Hamilton: Well, nobody wants to hear it.
- Billy Kwan: Tell them anyway!”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.”

Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“I'm going to take your boy Samir downtown, I'm going to strap his ass to a polygraph machine and I'm going to ask him questions about you. Then I'm going to take those transcripts, I'm going to take them to a friend of mine at the New York Times who just loves to write stories about the link between the CIA and political horror shows.”

Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard