Mal Peet Quotes

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 truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

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

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The media can make or break an administration.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

The media has had its fun with me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

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

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

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.