Newspapers quotes

You know what it feels like when newspapers call you the boss of a sister fucker? The whole damn town thinks I'm runnin' a "sisterfuckeria".
John Rothman - Larry Falwell

“I need a reporter. And you'll do local car wrecks. Take the picture, write the story. We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week whether or not we actually have a car wreck. Now, there's a knack for taking photos that make you feel something. If there's a dark patch on the ground it reads blood whether it's motor oil or Diet Coke.”
Scott Glenn - Jack Buggit

“In the decade of the 1930s, even the great city of Metropolis was not spared the ravages of the worldwide depression. In times of fear and confusion, the job of informing the public was the responsibility of the Daily Planet, a great metropolitan newspaper whose reputation for clarity and truth had become the symbol for hope in the city of...” (continue)(continue reading)

“I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.”
Clark Gable - Peter

“You were mentioned in the paper today, in the back with the obituaries. 'Velma Kelly's trial has been post-poned indefinitely'. Seven words.”
Renee Zellweger - Roxie Hart

“- Jack Kelly: You only took 20 papes; why?
- David Jacobs: It's a bad headline.
- Jack Kelly: Well, that's the first thing you gotta learn, headlines don't sell papers. Newsies sell papers.”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly
David Moscow - David Jacobs

“I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh-and-blood.
- Kane: Oh Emily, I don't spend that much time on the newspaper.
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: It isn't just the time. It's what you print - attacking the President.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Joey Popchik: I'm fighting in the Garden tomorrow night.
- Gloves Malloy: I heard it in the papers.”

Harry Hamlin - Joey Popchik
George C. Scott - Gloves Malloy

“I realize that homicides and splashy robberies get most of the headlines, but it's about time this crime gets the attention it deserves.”
Clint Eastwood - Nick Pulovski

“Mr. Mayor, my column gave you this office, and it can take it away.”
Stanley Tucci - Walter Winchell

“We have no secrets from our readers.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“Drank my coffee, read the paper, now it's time to get to work.”
Ed E. Carroll - The Thief

“There are no small jobs here. A newspaper is a daily miracle.”
Kevin Bacon - Dan Hanson

“- Newsvendor: What can I do you for?
- Luisa: I would like to buy this newspaper.
- Newsvendor: Well now, you should buy this one here as well. The Tri-State Defender.
- Luisa: No, thank you. I think I need only this one.
- Newsvendor: Well, you know, you only need one leg to get around on if that's all you got. But it sure helps having two, now...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sy Richardson - Newsvendor
Nicoletta Braschi - Luisa

“You don't know any stories? Okay, I'll tell you a story. This is a newspaper. It's 90 per cent bullshit, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it? Because it entertains me. You won't let me read it, so you entertain me with your bullshit. Tell me a story, right now.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- John Reid: I read your article you wrote in the paper this morning.
- Amy Striker: Oh? Did you like it?
- John Reid: Well, you made me sound like a hero.”
Klinton Spilsbury - John Reid
Juanin Clay - Amy Striker

“Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

- Ed (editor): McCoy! Billy, kill that story about the Republican Convention in Chicago and take this down: "The Ringo Kid was killed on Main Street in Lordsburg tonight. And among the additional dead were...". Leave that blank for a spell.
- McCoy (typesetter): I didn't hear any shooting, Ed.
- Ed (editor): You will, Billy, you will.
Robert Homans - Ed (editor)

“- Jimmy Dix: It's called a vocabulary. You got one of those?
- Joe Hallenbeck: Sorry, my subscription to JUGGS magazine ran out.”
Damon Wayans - Jimmy Dix
Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck

"Paramount Pictures presents “The Freak”. This movie won't just scare you, it will fuck you up for life”. I want to know how the fuck the word "fuck" gets in the New York fucking Times!

J. T. Walsh - Drucker

“You're wasting your time. He doesn't want any lawyers. He's sunk so low he doesn't want help from anybody. You can take a bow for that. As swell a guy as ever hit this town, and you crucified him for a couple of stinking headlines.”

Lionel Stander - Cornelius Cobb

“- Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
- Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

Get this in your lead: "Two lovers brawl in Burns' home". You know, jealousy angle. Primitive stuff. Stone age. Two savages fighting over a gorgeous girl. Mad with desire.

Lee Tracy - Space Hanlon

“- Sam: Excuse me, could you tell me how to find the post office?
- Man with the Newspaper: Do I know you? No, I'm sorry, do I know you? Cause, how did you know I speak English?
- Sam: You got an English newspaper.”
Robert De Niro - Sam
Ron Perkins - Man with the Newspaper