Denis Thatcher Quotes

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Take press coverage seriously but not personally

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

Trust me, pitfalls of early fame are always around. But you have to have the strength within yourself to say, "No!" Like tonight, I'd like to go out, and I have the freedom to do so. But I probably won't because I can't risk having my name associated with anything negative at this critical time. That's just to protect my brain and my job. There's no reason to play any games with a career I love.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.