Newspapers quotes

“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
Jerry Seinfeld

“- 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

“- Mario: Are you spendin' money on this stuff? Look at this!
- Luigi: Yeah, but that's got the article about the missing Brooklyn girls in it.
- Mario: Yeah? It's also got one on the scientist who turns brains into cheese.”

Bob Hoskins - Mario Mario
John Leguizamo - Luigi Mario

“Louise, people in this country aren't interested in details. They don't even trust details. The only thing they trust is headlines.”
Gene Hackman - Sen. Kevin Keeley

“If anything happens to me, there's a box of magazines under my bed; get rid of them, okay?”

Graham Sack - Brian Grant

“Contrary to popular New York myth, the 'Times' is not omniscient.”
Jeremy Piven - Dean Kansky

“In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randalph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. On every corner you saw them carrying the banner. Bringing you the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army without a leader,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max Casella - Racetrack Higgins

“The newspapers was goin' on and on about the city elections, like they was really gonna change somebody's life. But my life had already changed when I lost my job three weeks before.”
Denzel Washington - Easy Rawlins

"Human interest story" is a euphemism for stories about weak-minded, vulnerable, ignorant people, to fill in newspapers read by vulnerable, weak-minded, ignorant people.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
Gene Kelly - E. K. Hornbeck

“Paper has a way of getting people in trouble.”
Alexander Chaplin - Sean Murphy

“- Railway Official: There's still fifty miles of track to be laid between here and Allabahad.
- Phileas Fogg: But the London newspapers announced the opening of this railway throughout.
- Railway Official: That must have been The Daily Telegraph. Never would have read that in The Times.”
Ronald Colman - Great Indian Peninsular Railway Official
David Niven - Phileas Fogg

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

“- Billie Dawn: You could have saved yourself the trouble. I don't read papers.
- Paul Verrall: Never?
- Billie Dawn: Yeah, once in a while the back part... the funnies.
- Paul Verrall: Oh, I think you should. The, the front part... the not-so-funnies.”
Judy Holliday - Billie Dawn
William M. Holden - Paul Verrall

“- Reporter 3: Freddie, concerning your private life: there's lots of pictures of you in the tabloids, looking drunk or ill.
- Freddie Mercury: Which one is it; ill or drunk?
- John Reid: I had a cold last week, if anyone cares.”
Joshua Higgott - Reporter 3
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury
Aidan Gillen - John Reid

“You ever notice how people die in alphabetical order?”

Joel Murray - George Calamari

“- Cliff: Jenny, prepare yourself for a shock: I'm the Rocketeer.
- Jenny: The Rocke-who?
- Cliff: For crying out loud, haven't you read the papers?
- Jenny: No, I've been working all day.”
Billy Campbell - Cliff
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Jenny

“In '53 I tried to volunteer for the Army, but got rejected on account of my knees. The papers called me a draft dodger. Don't matter to them what the truth is, and I still get booed for that shit.”
Thomas Jane - Mickey Mantle

- Friday: Can you tell me how much a monthly run of your "magazine" is worth?
- Jerry Caesar: Let's just thay it's more money than you'll ever thee in your life. And I do that every month.
- Friday: At least my money is clean.
- Jerry Caesar: Tell you what you can do, Friday, before you go home and start polithing your pennieth.
Dan Aykroyd - Friday
Dabney Coleman - Jerry Caesar

“- Sherlock Holmes: Have the newspapers got wind of it yet?
- Constable Clark: Well, that's what we're trying to avoid, sir.
- Sherlock Holmes: Certainly. What's the major concern?
- Constable Clark: Panic. Sheer bloody panic, sir.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
William Houston - Constable Clark

“- Jimmy Lynch: You read the newspapers, Jock?
- Jockamo: Of course I read the newspapers. What do I look like, an imbecile?”
Timothy Hutton - Jimmy Lynch
Steven Keats - Jockamo

“What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.”
Harrison Ford

“- Mollie Malloy: Aren't they inhuman?
- Hildy Johnson: I know. They're newspapermen.
- Mollie Malloy: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?”
Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“When I was sixteen, I went to work for a newspaper in Hong Kong. It was a rag, but the editor taught me one important lesson. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of.”

Orson Welles - Kane