Journalist quotes

“I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.”
Ryan Murphy

“Born phonies, all you newspapermen.”
John Craig - Lloyd

“Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank

“All columnists should be beaten to a pulp and converted back into paper!”
Walter Hampden - Oliver Larrabee

“- 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

“I’m a newspaperwoman and I have an obligation to report the facts.”
Phyllis Coates - Lois Lane

“Now them two reporters from back east … they’ll try to stop us, like as not, but we ain’t gonna be stopped. This is our town. We don’t need any strangers telling us what to do.”

Jeff Corey - Luke Benson

“When I was a reporter we fucked each other and didn't write about it.”
Alfred Molina - Ben Bradlee

“I feel that we’ve failed if we don’t face what war does, if we don’t face the human horrors and tell people what really happens when all sides try to obscure the truth.”
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“- NewspaperEditor: Why is it important, do you think, to see this images? Why is it important for you to be there? Right now you may be one of the only Western journalists in Homs. Our team has just left.
- Marie Colvin: For an audience for which any conflict is very far away, this is the reality. There are 28,000 civilians, men, women and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Haydon - Newspaper Editor
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.”
Michael Jackson

“Write anything you want about me. Make up something. Hell, I don't care.”

Spencer Tracy

“More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.”
Holly Hunter