Monica Lewinsky Quotes

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

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

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

There are two things that you should never do in front of the TV cameras. You should not make love and you should not make peace.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.