Marilyn Manson Quotes

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

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.

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

The Max Clifford case shows that when the police and prosecutors quietly hold their nerve they can succeed, whatever the public profile or popularity of the accused.

The media do strange things.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

My journey is different from other star brothers, kids, or sisters. I think that is one of the main reasons that people don't question me on this. So far, the media and the audiences have not really roped me into the ambit of nepotism.

Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish every talent's TV persona.

People see whatever the media first reports.