Taron Egerton Quotes

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

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

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I don't stage my own publicity.

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

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 think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

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.

They put out statements to make themselves look good.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

My public image is none of my business.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

Talking to the press is not always good.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.

I've seen people 'turn up' for the camera, thinking that this is the best way to maximize their platform and get more camera time. This formula works, but it's shortsighted.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.