M. J. Rose Quotes

Actors should never give interviews.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

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

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

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 don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

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

Every Hockey Canada event, the first day you just do a thousand interviews. You get used to it.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

I get along fine with the press.

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.