Garry Trudeau Quotes

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

The job of a political correspondent is the challenge the people in power. If you are in power, I will challenge you.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

I don’t care what the newspapers write about me. My constituents can’t even read. But get rid of those damn pictures [political cartoons]

Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for the adults.

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie.