Press quotes

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

“Often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.”
Maggie Smith

Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. "The Unapproachable Miss Lord", "The Philadelphia Story".

Henry Daniell - Sidney Kidd

“Nobody is closer to power then the press secretary for the president.”
George Wilson - Jim Richardson

“Batman... Batman... Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press? This town needs an enema!”
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, you bought it. The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! And now, even now, when every word of what Wigand has said on our show is printed, the entire deposition of his testimony in a court of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“All you want is a few free drinks and a chance to tear people down. Those guys deserve a bit more respect. You bunch of wankers.”

Hans Matheson - Luke Shand

“The United Nations are here now. The world press are watching. The peace has been signed. Let this process work.”
Don Cheadle - Paul Rusesabagina

“I've got no problem with blood. What worries me is ink.”
Nick Tate - Commander B

So the guy tells me "Hey, Rog, would you sign an X for my kid?". I sign X and the son of a bitch takes off! I was going to give him a real autograph, I was just kidding around! We win the most important game of the season and this is the horseshit they write about?
Barry Pepper - Roger Maris

“- Bernie White: I hate columnists! Why do I have all these columnists? I got political columnists, guest columnists... celebrity columnists - The only thing I don't have is a dead columnist. That's the kind I could really use.
- Henry Hackett: Right. Listen...
- Bernie White: We reek of opinions. What every columnist at this paper needs to do is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Duvall - Bernie White
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“- Joanne Herring: He may be in trouble with the press, but he stayed out of jail. You don't see God's hand in this?
- Gust Avrakotos: Well reasonable people can disagree, but I don't see God anywhere within miles of this. On the other hand, if you slept with me tonight, I bet you I could change my mind in a hurry.”
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“We produce books for the discriminating collector. The compulsive inmates set the type, the listless ones do the binding and prepare the ink.”
Sir Michael Caine - Royer-Collard

“There's a lot of people out there, and they ain't just gonna go away. They got voices now and they're goin' to be listened to. Putting them in jail is not going to stop them. That's the power of the press, Joe. So thanks for teaching me about it.”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“Honey, it was my idea. Ah, you know how it is at the hotel, all the reporters and the fans all the time, this is great. Oh it's just me, Roger, and Cerv. Hey, you look kind of sexy in that. No, there ain't no girls here, it's Roger! He wearing a stupid little girlie apron, cooking up some bacon.”

Thomas Jane - Mickey Mantle

“- Yoji Nishimurar: All wisecracks you're making make you seem disrespectable. I just do this for you to save face. Besides, press writes their own story anyway.
- Jack Elliot: I'll deal with the Press! And I'll take care of my own face, you just translate what comes out of it! You got me?”
Toshi Shioya - Yoji Nishimura
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“When the press quit crucifying me, I'll know I've been in this business too long.”
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“In the old days, we had the rack. Nowadays, we have the press.”
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern

“- Henry Hackett: What if these aren't the guys? What if they're innocent?
- Alicia Clark: Taint them today, we make them look good on Saturday. Everybody's happy.
- Henry Hackett: Wait. This is a story that could permanently alter the public's perception of two teenagers who might be innocent and as a weekend bonus, ignite another race war. How...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett
Glenn Close - Alicia Clark

“I'm to be examined, undressed, and generally humiliated at 15 cents a copy.”

Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

“Like others with tiny bullets hidden in their skulls, Thomas Ince held on unconscious for 2 days before dying in his own bed. There was plenty of misinformation in the days following his death, much of it coming from the Hearst press machine. Which inexplicably reported that Ince was stricken unconscious while visiting Hearst at his upstate ranch.”
Joanna Lumley - Elinor Glyn

“- Bernie White: You got a cop quote?
- Henry Hackett: A what?
- Bernie White: Quote. You know, they talk, you write, we print?”
Robert Duvall - Bernie White
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“- Walter Winchell: Hitler hates me. He hates me!
- News Seller: Yeah, well, Joe Stalin hasn't sent me a Christmas card either.”
Stanley Tucci - Walter Winchell
Marshall Gitter - News Seller

“Reincarnation - life after death - mumbo-jumbo of all kinds has been highly commercial throughout the history of book publishing. The first printed book... was the Bible.”
Matt Ross - Dan

“You can't leave now! There are people here. The press. Photographers. You're an actress now. You belong to them!”

Constance Collier - Miss Luther