Roseanne Barr Quotes

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

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

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

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

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

Negative press is always going to come out.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

Talking to the press is not always good.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

Personal questions, or accusations about delivering flops or not doing good films end up being accusatory sessions where I have to defend myself. That's why I prefer not to do interviews.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

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

The media has had its fun with me.

I've never been able to control my public image.

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